A Body's Just as Dead

Haunting and Hysterical Contemporary American FictionTHE AMERICAN DREAM aint what it used to be and Pete-o Hemper has a bone to pick with these newfangled changes. When high-tech ways whack their little hometown off-kilter the zany Hemper family struggles to adjust. Fueled by a gluttonous diet of talk radio wacky Uncle Pete-o strikes back at the forces he believes are betraying the land that he loves. A crazy congealed salad of bizarre adventures stinging wit and gritty realism this fresh portrait of American stubbornness has all the ingredients of a stirring page-turner. Youll relish this folksy menagerie of real and relatable characters in their endearing calamity of modern life run amok.2019 Georgia Author of the Year Awards Nominee for Literary Fiction.