January 2010
2 posts
On the way from Bloomsbury USA...
Wrecker A Novel by Summer Wood
The year is 1965 and the city is San Francisco, and a young woman dressed in a madras skirt lies back on a grassy stretch of a playground and gives birth to a large, perfect baby boy. Three years later, the mother is in prison, and the boy, Wrecker, is six hours north at the communal Bow Farm. Wood weaves the tale of Wrecker’s upbringing by a group of...
Bandy Returns to Lake Fork
A few miles outside of town he asked the driver to pull over and after a short argument he got off the bus and stood in the road, looked west. The snow banks were melting and the hair and bones of a roadkill deer were piled up wet and matted at the pavement’s edge. Blackbirds sat on the telephone wires as black and unmoving as the wire they were perched on. He walked on stiff legs down a long...