In this stunning debut, author Bill Beverly delivers a story unlike anything else in fiction: a dark, haunting, literary crime novel. The story of a young man named East who works for an LA drug gang, sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys to kill a witness connected to a major case, who is hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an America that is entirely alien to him, and over the course of his journey the book brings in elements from a diverse array of genres, ranging from crime fiction to road narrative to coming-of-age novel.
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ISBN:9781101903735
Physical Description:print regular print 290 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher:New York, New York :Crown Publishers,2016.
Summary: In this stunning debut, author Bill Beverly delivers a story unlike anything else in fiction: a dark, haunting, literary crime novel. The story of a young man named East who works for an LA drug gang, sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys to kill a witness connected to a major case, who is hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an America that is entirely alien to him, and over the course of his journey the book brings in elements from a diverse array of genres, ranging from crime fiction to road narrative to coming-of-age novel.