"Stunning debut novel by a wise new voice in American fiction" -Dave Gantt, librarian, Washington, D.C., in a review on Amazon.com.

"...a wonderfully guilty pleasure" - Becky Hendrick, author of Getting It: a Guide to Understanding and Appreciating Art.

"...such fertile ground" - Larry Johnson, Southern Quarterly.

A legendary artist vanishes at the height of his career. To discover what happened and why, a childhood friend immerses himself in their shared history and in the events of a generation growing up between World War II and the sixties in Mississippi.