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A writer living in Tallahassee, Florida, Mustain has created a work that deserves to be considered alongside the best Southern fiction. His protagonist, Johnny, was born with tiny flaps on his back that eventually grow into actual wings. His small town neighbors call him the devil. He becomes an outcast and spends time in a traveling freak show. His journey eventually ends in the halls of power in Tallahassee, the state capitol.
Mustain beautifully renders Johnny's world. I particularly loved the depiction of the traveling carnival show. His writing is literary but his plotting is determined and well-paced. It pushes the story forward.
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Wascom builds a fable that feels real and current, and has the violent, madcap drive of the best pulp fiction. His Florida is full of prophets, gunslingers, mega-warriors, and fundamentalist religion. And I found myself identifying with Rally, the 13-year-old, at the center of the action.
Wascom's West Florida tale makes me feel like I stepped into one of George Miller's Mad Max movies. That is a compliment.
I won't say more. You need to experience this book on your own.
From the beloved author previously compared to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce Carol Oates (Washington Post), a startling and unconventional neon-pink Western of vengeance, family, and first love as two warring factions vie for control of a blood-soaked Gulf Coast
It's 2026, and Rally is thirteen years old. The long, hot Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop, and the country is talking civil war while his adoptive family acts more vicious than ever. Rally spends his days wondering about his dead father's people, the Woolsacks of West Florida, who long ago led a failed rebellion to…
