Author M. Glenn Taylor was nominated for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award for his novel Taylor returns spectacularly with a sweeping story set against the changing landscape of post-World War II America that recalls and the early lyrical work of Cormac McCarthy. A masterwork of Southern fiction that the National Book Award-winning author of , John Casey, calls, “a terrific rough-and-tumble novel,” is a gift from a truly exhilarating American voice.