Minnow

A Kirkus Best Book of the Year (2015)

"Minnow is an urgent novel, as stark and wild as the fairy tale deep in its bones."
- Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies

"Minnow is a gorgeous fever-dream of a novel."
- Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 
Minnow is an otherworldly story of a small boy who leaves his dying father s bedside hunting a medicine for a mysterious illness. Sent by his mother to a local druggist in their seaside village, Minnow unexpectedly takes a dark and wondrous journey deep into the ancient Sea Islands, seeking the grave dust of a long-dead hoodoo man to buy him a cure. With only a half-feral dog at his side, Minnow s odyssey is haunted at every turn by the agents of Sorry George, a witch doctor who once stirred up a fever that killed fifty-two men. Meanwhile, a tempest brews out at sea, threatening to bring untold devastation to the coastal way of life. Minnow is a remarkable debut novel that evokes the fiction of Karen Russell and Lauren Groff a Lowcountry Heart of Darkness about the mysteries of childhood, the sacrifices we make to preserve our families, and the ghosts that linger in the Spanish moss of the South Carolina barrier islands.

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