Southern & American Gothic
by Donald Ray Pollock
In 1917 rural Georgia, three desperate brothers turn to banditry after their father's death, while their paths intersect with a variety of vivid characters across the South. Pollock crafts a darkly comic, violent tale steeped in period detail and grotesque Americana. The novel examines poverty, delusion, and the American Dream's brutal underside with unflinching prose.
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