In a triumphant return to the characters that launched his
career two decades ago, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse
County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of
Vandalism. Drury’s depictions of the stark beauty of the
Midwest and the futility of American wanderlust have earned
him comparisons to Raymond Carver, Sherwood Anderson, and
Paul Auster.
When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling
travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who
deserted him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his
league in a land of magical freedom. He does new drugs with
new people, falls in love with an enchanting but troubled
equestrienne named Charlotte, and gets thrown out of school
over the activities of a club called the New
Luddites.
Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young
woman comes to Stone City on a mission that will unsettle
the lives of everyone she meets—including Micah’s
half-sister, Lyris, who still fights fears of abandonment
after a childhood in foster care, and his father, Tiny, a
petty thief. An investigation into the stranger’s identity
uncovers a darkly disturbed life, as parallel narratives of
the comic and tragic, the mysterious and everyday, unfold in
both the country and the city.
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