At Dawn

Caught in a riptide of haphazard underemployment at turns violent and unpredictable suffering under a bad economy with no family or friends to speak of Stratton Brown longs for the chance to escape his small-town past and build a new life. He sets out for Chicago where he meets a new and fresh hell: a nine-to-fiver in a nondescript meaningless company and an obsessive love affair with woman who may be a bit too attached to her abusive ex-boyfriend. Is this all America has to offer its twentysomethings? Hell soon have to figure out that beneath the gruff labor of building a new life lies the presence of something much more true: a way past his violent childhood and a new path to the American dream.. At Dawn is a literary debut of a fresh and powerful male voice in fiction.