Brooks Tigner

Pick-up Sticks (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Think the #MeToo, #HeToo problem new? Think again.

Cross "The Help" and "Ordinary People" on steroids and you get this ominous family tale from the Great Society era of the '60s. Its claws sink in slowly, but they lacerate the wounds America suffers today.

Mixing sweat-inducing scenes with laugh-out-loud passages, Brooks Tigner's Pick-up Sticks compels the reader towards its fatal but poignant conclusions about race, class and abuse. A first retroactive "WeToo" novel:

A widow with a five-year old boy in 1964 had little chance of getting hitched again in small-town Texas, but Cathy got lucky: she married a doctor and thus replaced the father figure her son Carey had lost the year before. Or so she thought.

He had a big house with a full-time maid, Cilla, and handyman Lamar, her son, who kept the yard impeccable between his other odd jobs.

Sev was sophisticated, cultured, disciplined, hard-working. And self-medicating: a darkening habit - feeding other, darker ones - whose tentacles spread out in sinister ways to envelope Lamar, others across the county's impoverished black community and, ultimately, Carey himself.

Only Cilla is witness to the evolving malaise. But it is Felicia, Lamar's girlfriend, who pieces it all together. She pays a high price for it, but is by no means the only who gets the short end of the stick...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tunnel's End Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780998108704
• Artikelnr.: 52306692

Autorenporträt

Brooks Tigner is a career journalist and editor born in Texas but based in Brussels where he has reported on the EU and NATO for the past 30 years.

His writing got a truly early start when, at age nine, he and neighborhood kids produced a (somewhat) weekly newspaper for several summers, flogging it to parents and whatever luckless stranger would pay a nickel for it. It was better than selling lemonade on a blazing hot sidewalk.

Though Pick-up Sticks is his first novel, its deadly serious themes gestated for many years in his imagination, awaiting a convergence of America's woes - economic, racial and sexual (#MeToo, #HeToo) - for readers to more readily ingest this retroactive story set in America's Great Society era.

That convergence is now upon us.

By contrast, his next book will be a social comedy set set among czar-nostalgic White Russians in 1980s New York.

Readers can send comments, reviews or feedback to [e-mail] or -- to get a free sample chapter from Pick-up Sticks -- visit the author's website at www.brookstigner.com