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BREAK THE BODIES, HAUNT THE BONES
Almost everyone in Swine Hill is haunted. Jane Walker's ghost tells her what everyone around her is thinking, even when she doesn't want to know. The lonely spirit possessing her mother burns anyone she touches. Her brother Henry's genius ghost forces him to build strange and dangerous machines. When unnatural beastmen begin to appear in town, taking precious jobs at the pork processing plant and enraging the spirits, Jane knows her brother's ghost has something to do with it. As Swine Hill's violent tide of dead begins tearing the town apart, Jane will have to find a way to save her haunted family and escape the town before it kills her.
BREAK THE BODIES, HAUNT THE BONES is a story about dying American cities, on a sociological scale, and about how each of us carries our own ghosts with us, haunted from within, on a psychological scale. It's cultural commentary that's intimately told and profoundly personal. Most of all, it's smart and funny and deeply weird.
Micah Dean Hicks is an award-winning author of fabulist fiction, with credits including the 2016 Arts & Letters Prize in Fiction, judged by Kate Christensen; the Wabash Prize, judged by Kelly Link; and the Calvino Prize, judged by Robert Coover. Micah's additional work has appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review, Epoch, and New Letters, among others. He teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida.
BREAK THE BODIES, HAUNT THE BONES is a story about dying American cities, on a sociological scale, and about how each of us carries our own ghosts with us, haunted from within, on a psychological scale. It's cultural commentary that's intimately told and profoundly personal. Most of all, it's smart and funny and deeply weird.
Micah Dean Hicks is an award-winning author of fabulist fiction, with credits including the 2016 Arts & Letters Prize in Fiction, judged by Kate Christensen; the Wabash Prize, judged by Kelly Link; and the Calvino Prize, judged by Robert Coover. Micah's additional work has appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review, Epoch, and New Letters, among others. He teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida.
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