Author - Jay Kuvaas

I’m a 4th generation son of Western Minnesota, where I grew up hunting deer, fishing and working on the family saw mill. I left for Minneapolis in 1996, but the imprint of this place never left me. Twenty years passed before I decided to write Can’t Buy Grace, the story of a rural criminal struggling to protect his daughter from a modern drug epidemic. 

There are countless details etched from my childhood dotted through the script: the distinctive Minnesota dialect, the small businesses operated out of people’s homes, the beater trucks that last forever, the guns that just seem to be lying around. But the story’s beating heart is the unbreakable bonds, good or bad, between the families involved, a real trait that’s kept these tiny communities alive through any number of recessions, droughts and floods. Can’t Buy Grace applies that truth to today’s crisis of abuse and addiction, another crisis that the people of Western Minnesota will quietly endure, as they always have, and always will.