An epic odyssey in which a young man must choose between the
lure of the future and the claims of the past
With clouds looming on the horizon, a group of children play
among the roots of the gnarled Bone Tree. Their games will be
interrupted by a merciless storm-bringing with it the Great Flood
of 1927-but not before Robert Chatham shares his first kiss with
the beautiful young Dora. The flood destroys their homes, disperses
their families, and wrecks their innocence. But that kiss will
sustain Robert for years to come. Having lost virtually everything
in the storm's aftermath, Robert embarks on a journey through the
Mississippi hinterland-from a refugee camp to a brothel to the
state's fearsome swamp. Trouble follows close on his heels, fueling
Robert's conviction that he's marked by the devil. Yet just when he
seems to shake off his demons, he's forced to make a choice that
will test him as never before.
Teeming with language that Entertainment Weekly hailed as
"sun-scorched prose that] recalls William Faulkner, Flannery
O'Connor, and Cormac McCarthy," Southern Cross the Dog is a tour de
force of literary imagination that voices both the savage beauty
and complex humanity of the American South.
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