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Branches (novel)

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Branches is a novel-in-verse by American author Mitch Cullin, with illustrations by the Japanese artist Ryuzo Kikushima.[1] It is the second installment of the writer's Texas Trilogy that also includes the coming-of-age football novel Whompyjawed and the surrealistic novel Tideland.

In a 2000 interview with the Austin Chronicle, Cullin stated that his first novel Whompyjawed was a more accurate reflection of West Texas while Branches, he was quoted as saying, "is kind of, maybe to a fault, what other people who haven't really been there might think it's like."[2]

Branches was first published in March 2000 as a hardcover edition from Permanent Press.[3][4]

Footnotes

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  1. Phillips, Robert (October 29, 2000). "Mitch Cullin succeeds with novel/poem". The Houston Chronicle. p. 21. Retrieved April 13, 2026 via Newspapers.com. Continued - "Poetry"
  2. The Austin Chronicle (Nov. 10, 2000)
  3. Chuculate, Eddie D. (January 9, 2000). "SF Native Rejects Rejection Of His Dream To Publish". Albuquerque Journal. p. 124. Retrieved April 13, 2026 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Branches by Mitch Cullin". Kirkus Reviews. January 1, 2000. Retrieved April 13, 2026.