Eric Shonkwiler

Years from now, America is slowly collapsing. Crops are drying up and oil is running out. People flee cities for the countryside, worsening the drought and opening the land to crime. Amid this decay and strife, war veteran David Parrish fights to keep his family and farm together. However, the murder of a local child opens old wounds, forcing him to confront his own nature on a hunt through dust storms and crumbling towns for the killer. ADVANCE PRAISE "Shonkwiler takes the world on his own terms, and wrestles it to the ground." -Tom Lutz, The Los Angeles Review of Books "Shonkwiler has taken an iconic landscape and filtered it through near-collapse and fear, then through loyalty and love." -Susan Straight, National Book Award finalist "Sparse and poetic, the words within these pages are as sharp as a corn knife." -Frank Bill, author of Donnybrook and Crimes in Southern Indiana "A rare, stark and beautiful achievement." -Paula Bomer, author of Nine Months

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8th Street Power & Light

"As Faulkner's voice portrayed the South and Breece D'J Pancake's represented Appalachia, Eric Shonkwiler captures the Midwest, with this collection of novellas and short stories that peels back the edges of rural existence to expose the heart of it. Through parental neglect, rebellious sons and daughters, drug-addled war veterans, backwoods zombies, injured firemen, car thieves, witch doctors, and Navajo ghosts, Shonkwiler brings you a disregarded world you can no longer ignore--one thriving with the mundane, the bruised, the unheard. Here is the voice of the rest of us, spoken only the way firsthand experience, rooted deep in overworked soil, can say it."--Page [4] of cover.

novellas & stories

Moon up, past full

Years from now, America is slowly collapsing. Crops are drying up and oil is running out. People flee cities for the countryside, worsening the drought and opening the land to crime. Amid this decay and strife, war veteran David Parrish fights to keep his family and farm together. However, the murder of a local child opens old wounds, forcing him to confront his own nature on a hunt through dust storms and crumbling towns for the killer.

Eric Shonkwiler

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