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Southern Cross the Dog
Bill Cheng
Ecco
May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
336 pages ISBN: 0062225006 EAN: 9780062225009 Kindle: B009NF76XC Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life
In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor,
Bill Cheng’s Southern Cross the Dog is an epic
literary debut in which the bonds between three childhood
friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
In its aftermath, one young man must choose between the lure
of the future and the claims of the
past. Having lost virtually everything in the
fearsome storm—home, family, first love—Robert Chatham
embarks on an odyssey that takes him through the deep South,
from the desperation of a refugee camp to the fiery and
raucous brothel Hotel Beau-Miel and into the Mississippi
hinterland, where he joins a crew hired to clear the swamp
and build a dam. Along his journey he encounters
piano-playing hustlers, ne’er-do-well Klansmen,
well-intentioned whores, and a family of fur trappers, the
L’Etangs, whose very existence is threatened by the
swamp-clearing around them. The L’Etang brothers are fierce
and wild but there is something soft about their cousin
Frankie, possibly the only woman capable of penetrating
Robert’s darkest places and overturning his conviction that
he’s marked by the devil.
Teeming with language that
renders both the savage beauty and complex humanity of our
shared past, Southern Cross the Dog is a tour de
force that heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
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