Horizontal Rust

<p>It's 2013 and a jobless Graham Mercy has just returned home to Wilkes-Barre PA after graduating from Columbia University. With his country still mired in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and with nothing better to do Graham sets out to fulfill a family obligation by attending the weekend-long convention of a failing regional life-insurance co-op. Expecting nothing but tedium and a $600 stipend Graham instead gets a surprise job offer he can neither accept nor decline develops a sudden infatuation he can neither pursue nor ignore and unwittingly enters into an absurd power struggle that could render him a pariah within his own family and ancestral community. <em>Horizontal Rust</em> the debut novel by Ned Russin of the bands Title Fight and Glitterer is a story about trying to understand boredom abstract expressionism family personal narratives and Wilkes-Barre. </p><p><br></p><p><em>[Horizontal Rust's]</em> offbeat realism offers readers much to consider. - <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p>