All the World Drowning

Kazimir Jonah Godwin is named for his great-great-great-great-grandfather founder of the rural Wisconsin town of New Eden where Kazimir is growing up. Taught by his father to seek the prophetic gifts of his ancestors and by his uncle to follow the paths of nature Kaz must ultimately probe the line between spiritual revelation and insanity. By his side will be his best friend Micah a pot-smoking punk-rocking Pentecostal and his first love Eliza a feral child of nature and imagination. Through survival camp-outs vision quests road trips drug deals and a tremendous amount of fishing Kazimirs heritage will haunt him until he can find a way to make sense of his familys bizarre sometimes dark history and unique gifts. Benjamin Prestons first novel is a surprisingly comic vigorously insightful exploration of sober themes evocatively set in the Wisconsin countryside of his own youth.