Growing up on the banks of the Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky, seventeen-year-old Thomas feels trapped by the constraints surrounding him, until he falls for his new history teacher, Alice, a woman eight years his senior who becomes his first love, and meets Shiloh, the anarchistic town misfit who becomes his role model. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
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“An engrossing tale . . . The novel ultimately succeeds because of the original voice of the narrator.” (USA Today)
“Tussing is a fine writer with a flair for imagery, and he’s crafted a melancholy, resonant story.” (Boston magazine)
“Inventive . . . Eloquent in capturing what it’s like to be alien in your own hometown. (Rocky Mountain News)
“Bleakly beautiful... Tussing skillfully crafts simultaneously visionary and demented characters... [An] odd but honest, appealing American story.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
“A fresh, original voice . . . Tussing fashions a sophisticated exploration of the allure of love.” (Des Moines Register)
“One bright book of exuberant American life . . . Tussing has a real gift.” (New York Times Book Review)
“It is very rare to find a novel so lovingly, deliberately and perfectly written . . . Read it. Now.” (Salon)
“A significant literary feat... Announces the arrival of a talented young voice on the contemporary fiction scene.” (Boston Sunday Globe)
“This novel is rich in character, and it offers scene after scene of crackling, revelatory dialogue among lovers and friends.” (Chicago Tribune)
“[A] lovely novel . . . Tussing is a witty, affecting writer.” (Washington Post Book World)
Justin Tussing's short fiction has appeared in several publications, including The New Yorker, TriQuarterly, and Third Coast. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and he lives in Portland, Oregon.
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