Easygoing, thoughtless, and direct, tex at fifteen likes everyone and everything, especially his horse, negrito, and Johnny Collins's blue-eyed sister, jamie. He thinks life with his seventeen-year-old brother, mason, in...Easygoing, thoughtless, and direct, tex at fifteen likes everyone and everything, especially his horse, negrito, and Johnny Collins's blue-eyed sister, jamie. He thinks life with his seventeen-year-old brother, mason, in their ramshackle house would be just about perfect if only mace would stop complaining about pop.