Wayward Suns

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bird's prose sets the bar high for his contemporaries in this slice-of-life tale marbled with self-destruction and ambiguous hellfire magic. Smart deep and honest. Highly recommended.</span></p><p>--CHAD LUTZKE author of <em>Slow Burn on Riverside</em> and <em>Of Foster Homes and Flies</em></p><p><strong>In this speculative coming-of-age tale Holden Caulfield gets a makeover and settles down in the Eighties. He doesn't know it yet but he has a date with the dark side...</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The year is 1987. Before the end of the Cold War before O.J. and the L.A. riots and the World Wide Web. Hair is big excess is in and Weston Mercer is slowly losing his mind.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>First it's all so familiar. </span>Evenings spent at the local oyster bar followed by late nights in the pines watching his cousin jam with his infamous band Olympus. Days spent in a haze of drugs and classic TV and miso soup. And something else--a miserable sort of existence shrouded from purpose beyond the implacable pall of depression. </p><p>Then he meets a stranger who reveals things dark things. <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Things Wes wishes he never would have heard. In the shadow of these darker truths nothing can ever be the same...</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Love. Addiction. Music. Death. Sex. Obsession. Madness.</strong></p><p><br></p>