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BOMB ISLAND
An unexploded atomic bomb, a feral tiger, a mismatched adopted family living on a supposedly uninhabited island, what could go wrong?
Inhabiting a space between coming-of-age-romance and thriller, Bomb Island follows Fish, a boy who lives in the shadow of a lost atomic bomb on a barrier island of Georgia with his adopted family and a feral tiger. They give boat tours of the island's historic bomb when they are not working around the docks or lounging on the sand.
Despite his desire to expand his horizon, Fish, at fourteen, is seen as a freak by the folks in Royals, the nearest mainland town. He's a boy who does not fit, with a life that makes no sense. Celia, a girl from the city who arrives in Royals with little more than her homemade tattoo gun and a broken arm, will do whatever it takes to escape her father and the town.
Fish and Celia meet by chance and Celia invites Fish to her party. A tentative friendship grows that suggests the possibility of something more, something bigger. But the two are irrevocably linked when Celia's father threatens Fish's family. For the locals have heard the stories of Sugar, a wild tiger stalking the island, discarding gleaming horse bones along the rolling beaches. Fish and Celia soon realize there are more dangers than Sugar -- dangers much closer to home than they could ever imagine.
Bomb Island presents a gritty yet feeling cast, and immeres readers in the wild, the raw, and the strange. Told from multiple points of view, it's a fast paced, sometimes funny, often dark, first novel that explores sub-culture lifestyles, trauma, and the violence that haunts the borders between land and sea, as well as tensions within families that come to a breaking point.
Stephen Hundley is the author of the story collection The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First, which was a finalist for the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize. He is the winner of the Bondurant Prize for poetry and the Larry Brown Short Story Award. His stories and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Carve, The South Carolina Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere.
Despite his desire to expand his horizon, Fish, at fourteen, is seen as a freak by the folks in Royals, the nearest mainland town. He's a boy who does not fit, with a life that makes no sense. Celia, a girl from the city who arrives in Royals with little more than her homemade tattoo gun and a broken arm, will do whatever it takes to escape her father and the town.
Fish and Celia meet by chance and Celia invites Fish to her party. A tentative friendship grows that suggests the possibility of something more, something bigger. But the two are irrevocably linked when Celia's father threatens Fish's family. For the locals have heard the stories of Sugar, a wild tiger stalking the island, discarding gleaming horse bones along the rolling beaches. Fish and Celia soon realize there are more dangers than Sugar -- dangers much closer to home than they could ever imagine.
Bomb Island presents a gritty yet feeling cast, and immeres readers in the wild, the raw, and the strange. Told from multiple points of view, it's a fast paced, sometimes funny, often dark, first novel that explores sub-culture lifestyles, trauma, and the violence that haunts the borders between land and sea, as well as tensions within families that come to a breaking point.
Stephen Hundley is the author of the story collection The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First, which was a finalist for the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize. He is the winner of the Bondurant Prize for poetry and the Larry Brown Short Story Award. His stories and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Carve, The South Carolina Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere.
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