Against The Country: A Novel

"Against The Country is a screed — almost the definition of one. It is a long, meandering, explosive, fierce, grating exploration and refutation of the notion that all the good in our national character comes from the rural and pastoral, and that all our manifold sins are born of town. At its most basic, it is a Southern Gothic yarn about the youth and coming of age of an unnamed narrator, growing up in a fictional version of Goochland County, Va. — a land of evil soil, terrible parents, vicious idiots, snakes, racists, genius chickens and suicidal dogs."