The Ghosts of Hawthorn Missouri

Eric Redmond and Daniel Wright were two adopted brothers who grew up together and died a world apart. They met in the middle of an American heartland that seemed perpetually in decline: shambolic trailer parks a meth epidemic and indifference between neighbors but with the refuge of religion. Here communities of blue-collar workers resigned to a lifetime of beige depression - themselves descendants of two centuries of cultural calamities armed only with the faint hope of one day living their dreams - give up their anxieties and weekly tithes to the Lord as well as to a charismatic pastor Eric's father Harold Redmond. Things seem to be going well in Hawthorn but its underbelly still thrives: drugs crime and grim small-town secrets. Daniel and Eric's bond is broken somewhere in the murky depths of the dysfunctional family unit -or does it continue to endure? Horrifying humorous irreverent and tragic The Ghosts of Hawthorn Missouriis a work that bursts with pain and with life.