![]() ![]() People do horrid things, act horrendously, and blame it on nature, God and righteousness, and anything else at hand, if they even think that hard about it. You can't judge who might be proven a killer by the end, and who might survive. And these are certainly people not too common in modern novels either. ![]() This is the 1950s and 1960s in very rural mid-East USA, a place not come across much in fiction on these shores. It's a place where the visiting priest pours a jar of spiders over himself to prove the power of the Lord's ability to rid him of phobias - and later, where a more humble, sensible priest only gets frowned on and shunned. It's a place where a man forces his son to pray dawn and dusk in a forested glade, while he sacrifices animals and hopes that works to rid his wife, and his kid's mother, of her cancer. It's a place where men meet their partners working as a waitress in an all-night diner, whether they've just come back from fighting in Korea or are a serial killer. Anyway, it's a place you certainly don't want to live, but on the quality of these contents, it's well worth visiting. ![]() There's already been a book of that name, but as this is the author's first novel that must have been short stories. ![]()
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