vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject
her father is insistent he passes the village of Birkstead down to his future grandchildren
the complicated nature of their relationship becomes the least of his troubles
this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out and feel invisible at the same time
Johnson is a faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and lives in Texas with his wife and children
The Purveyor of Death -- Michael Decamp, Paperback Traditional vivid and deeply serious treatmentA young man with amnesia, D. R. (Doc) Moon walks toward Cutters Notch, Indiana at midnight on a warm summer night carrying only a water bottle and a backpack. Inside his bag is a journal containing his only long term memories. Tired, thirsty, and a little hungry, he's hoping to find a bed of pine needles to rest. Before reaching the edge of town, he's struck with a vivid vision of his own bloody death. Per his journal, this has happened before. He