High as the Horses' Bridles: A Novel

A powerful book an unflinching examination of two centuries of American yearning and desire.-Colum McCann TheNew York Times Book Review. In a crowded amphitheater in Queens a nervous twelve-year-old Josiah Laudermilk steps to the stage to deliver his first sermon to thousands of waiting believers. A prodigy they called him the next in a long line of faithful men. Decades later though after a failed marriage and years away from the church and his home Josiah (now Josie) finally returns to Queens to check on his father who seems to be losing his grip on reality. Barreling through the old neighborhood hes flooded with memories of his past but when he finally arrives at his familys old house hes completely unprepared for what he finds. Reaching from 1980 Queens to present-day sunny California to a tent revival in nineteenth-century rural Kentucky High as the Horses Bridles is an imaginative and heartbreaking debut from a bold new American voice.