Boy With Wings

<h4><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Every misfit has a story. This one has wings.</span></h4><p></p><p></p><p></p><h6><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>From internationally renowned author Mark Mustian comes a novel where historical Southern Gothic meets the supernatural in a story like no other.</span></h6><p></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In the Jim Crow South a baby is born with strange wing-like appendages. The townsfolk call him a devil. His mother calls him Johnny Cruel-and to save him she fakes his death and runs. So begins a life on the margins.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Set against the backdrop of 1930s and '40s America Boy With Wings is a poignant work of Southern literary fiction about one boy's extraordinary body and his lifelong struggle to belong. From a backwoods turpentine camp to a traveling freak show from found families of outcasts to the halls of power in Tallahassee Johnny's journey explores the lines between acceptance and exploitation isolation and love.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Is Johnny a monster an angel or just a boy trying to live in peace? As he searches for meaning-through love loss betrayal and brutal truths-Johnny must decide whether to keep hiding... or rise on his own terms.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Told in vivid lyrical prose this tale of identity blends elements of Southern Gothic outsider fiction and found family stories. Boy With Wings is a powerful meditation on identity stigma resilience and the quiet miracles that help us soar.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>For readers of <em>The Secret Life of Bees</em> and <em>The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell</em> this is a novel that lingers-long after the final page is turned.</strong></p>