The Salt Palace

“With the publication of The Salt Palace, we welcome a brave new voice to American fiction. Darren DeFrain is one hell of a writer. The marvel of this gritty and propulsive first novel is that DeFrain, right out of the gates, has staked claim on a wild new territory of desperate love, alienation, heartbreak, and redemption. A stranger in his own land, our hero Brian is driving across America to find himself or to lose himself, he’s not sure which. He’s got a passenger with him—Randy, a one-armed Mormon Lone Ranger, a character as memorable as any I’ve met in contemporary fiction, and there’s room for one more. So hop on in, but strap on your seatbelt and hold on to your hat. The road’s a little bumpy up ahead.” —John Dufresne, author of Deep in the Shade of Paradise