Nowhere, Michael Farris Smith, Pierre Demarty

"Every now and then, an author appears who loves their art, the written word, and the great mysteries that lie beyond the physical world. There was William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, or Annie Proulx. You can now add Michael Farris Smith to the list." James Lee Burke

A woman walks alone with a little girl on a Louisiana road. She has nowhere to go. Having left the town where she grew up with nothing a few years earlier, she returns just as destitute. She thinks she has experienced the worst. She is wrong.

Russell also left his hometown eleven years earlier. For a prison sentence that has just ended. He returns home, believing he has paid his debt. But he hasn't accounted for the desire for revenge of those who await him.

In the desolate landscapes of the American countryside, a murder will unite these lost souls, whose lives will soon hang by a thread.

Michael Farris Smith possesses a totally unique style and evocative talent that goes straight to the reader's heart. With these characters who cling to life against all odds, he offers us a magnificent novel about the human condition.