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This thrilling debut novel--equal parts satire and morality play--shines a sharp light on the dark and radical underbelly of the floundering American Midwest.
Clyde Twitty could use a break, a helping hand. He's a young man lost--in his finances, in his family--and stuck deep within the fast-settling muck of a dwindling rural Missouri town that has, in every way, given up hope. The hand that reaches down, lifts him up, and leads him forward belongs to a fiercely charismatic patriarch named Jay Smalls, a man who exerts a kind of gravitational force--and breeds fierce purpose in those who find themselves caught in it.
Not rattled by the increasingly sinister racial undertones of Jay and his posse, and desperate to look forward and not down, for once in his life, Clyde hardly stumbles when the path he's being ushered down takes a dark and irrevocable turn. As he plunges us into the violent spiral of a desperate youth, he explores with unflinching acuity the ugly nature of hate, the untempered force of personality, and the sometimes horrific power of having someone believe in you.
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About the Author
Mike Harvkey handled research and reporting for bestselling author James Patterson and Alex Abramovich on All-American Murder (Little Brown, January 2018), about convicted killer and football star AaronHernandez. Mike's debut novel, In the Course of Human Events, waspublished in 2014 by Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. His writing hasappeared in Esquire, Poets & Writers, Salon, Zoetrope All-StoryMagazine, Mississippi Review, The Believer, NYLON, and PublishersWeekly. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony andColumbia University.
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