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Two novels about creation, obsession, mental illness, and the beautiful trouble people make together.
Folk musician and teenage orphan Buddy Henshaw returns to Michigan a decade after a reckless accident drove him from his first love, hoping to win her back by founding an artists’ colony in a hollowed-out downtown. His reunion instead becomes a chain of house parties, competing ambitions, and murders that leave his friends to reckon with the wreckage.
Told through a split mind, Dry World braids two love stories about the same psychotic narrator—one at the close of college in 2003 and one at the start of a literary life in 2005. As each relationship spirals toward violence, the novel becomes a patient coming-of-age story about learning from love and madness.
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