Lost Cain Paperback Edition

Cain McAllister is named after the tiny delta town on the banks of the Mississippi where he was born. The infamous circumstances of his birth forever change the strong, troubled women who love him. Though he is shunned and bullied by the other children in town, when a new preacher and his family arrive, Cain finds what he has always longed for--a best friend. Things take a deadly turn when a troubled young girl named Macy befriends them both and the town ignites into spiritual revival. Distinctly Southern Lost Cain is the kind of story that will make you laugh, then cry, then laugh again--a hilarious, tender look at a fading town struggling against both the encroaching waters of the Mississippi and the coming cultural change of the 1970's.

T. Daniel Wright was born in Northeast Arkansas. He spent his childhood avoiding sports, being obsessed instead with Donna Summer, old PhotoPlay magazines and Charlie s Angels. His play, Colored Eggs was successfully produced in theaters around the South and the screen adaptation, Changing Hearts starred Faye Dunaway, Tom Skerritt, Ian Somerhalder and Lauren Holly. Daniel worked as a screenwriter and producer in Los Angeles for years, earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas and now teaches at a small college in Missouri. Lost Cain is his first novel.