In Arhat, Iowa, there are cornfields and there's the Colony. Smart and precocious fifteen-year-old Eve is feeling stymied by both. So she gets her first job as a highway work crew flagman, falls in love with a local teen Adonis and his widowed father, and plots to intervene in her best friend's arranged marriage. As Thomas Rayfiel's Colony Girl races to an unexpected climax, Eve finds herself trying to save the colony at the same time as she struggles to break free of its ominous control.
In Arhat, Iowa, there are cornfields and there's the Colony. Smart and precocious fifteen-year-old Eve is feeling stymied by both. So she gets her fir...
A quirky, funny, unsettling, Twin Peaks-style mystery. When Allen Stanley's father is found dead in the bathtub, his wrists slashed, Allen is summoned back to the suburb where he grew up. But the simple matter of arranging the burial and settling the estate soon becomes entangled in the shadowy side of suburban life.
A quirky, funny, unsettling, Twin Peaks-style mystery. When Allen Stanley's father is found dead in the bathtub, his wrists slashed, Allen is summoned...
As the elderly hero of Thomas Rayfiel s daring new novel, "In Pinelight, " sits in an old folks home responding to the questions of an unseen interrogator, the fragments he supplies form the portrait of a man s life in upstate New York. Losses, loves, destructive family relationships, sexual entanglements, and moments of mystical awareness filter through the seeming minutiae of small-town gossip to confront the reader with their cumulative power.
"In Pinelight" stirs the emotions both by its formal virtuosity and by the precision with which the narrator is able to reveal human...
As the elderly hero of Thomas Rayfiel s daring new novel, "In Pinelight, " sits in an old folks home responding to the questions of an unseen inter...
Kara Bell spent her youth plotting escape from Witch s Falls, Arkansas. Relentless focus and the spurning of all emotional attachment led to the doctoral program in philosophy at Columbia University. But Kara s careful plans are upended by cancer, and suddenly she is home again, where she finds herself subject to her mother s suffocating care, her brother s puzzling love life, the local doctor s meddling, and the strong gravitational pull of her old friend and obsession, Christy Lee. Will Kara find health and sanity? Will she learn what really happened to her father? Can she escape Witch s...
Kara Bell spent her youth plotting escape from Witch s Falls, Arkansas. Relentless focus and the spurning of all emotional attachment led to the do...
