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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Maren Wiederhold
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Crime & mystery fiction

HELLO DOWN THERE

Michael Parker

Haunted by a secret tragedy, Edwin, son of the richest family in a small Southern town, fights to overcome his addiction to morphine and face the truth that his parents have worked to obscure.

This timeless debut novel of master Southern storyteller Michael Parker takes readers to a small Southern town in the 1950s where Edwin Keane suffers from the lasting effects of a horrible accident a broken back, a morphine addiction, and a town of enabling eccentrics. Redemption comes in the form of a young woman the daughter of a poor farmer and a couple of the town's most interesting outcasts. Parker is an amazing writer. His narrative style is both lyrical and economical, making this novel a true Southern gothic classic.

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Book Published 2024-08-27 by Blair Publisher

Comments

This is Southern gothic intrigue and eccentricity at its best, with language playing an integral part in the action. In Partker's intensely imaginative world, metaphor can be addictive, stories have the power to free stultified lives and telling the truth can redeem the sins of the past. Rich and compassionate, his is a memorable story.