The Dark Between the Stars

In the summer of 1923 eighteen-year old Elijah Cockburn is enjoying typical small-town Midwestern life in Menninger North Dakota when a confrontation forces him and his friends Merle and Pearl and their cousin Axel to hitch a freight and head into the American West. Awaiting them are Wobblies railroad bulls bootleggers the Jack Dempsey-Tommy Gibbons title fight hobo jungles pickpockets President Warren G. Harding and San Francisco where Elijah's brother Josh shows him a new way to look at life. Memorable characters such as Twig Bear Boss Lucretia Hiram and his dog JJ Miss Hoar Black Betty White Hair and Duke inhabit the novel.