One of Our Books of the Year 2017 | November 2017 Book of the Month
In the hinterlands of America, a man completes his jail sentence for accidental murder and returns to his home town, where relatives of the boy he killed whilst drunk driving are set on revenge. The sad lives of people caught in a circle of despair is captured with poignant accuracy as well as the slippery slope that leads them there despite all their best intentions.
A novel about the day to day life and travails of ordinary people eager for redemption or, at any rate, a chance at a normal life, this is both moving and gripping as the assorted characters reach out for a safety raft of sorts despite all the indignities circumstances heap on them and they struggle to retain dignity and principles.
A harsh but beautiful thriller that has you cheering under your breath for its wounded, fallible protagonist throughout and a considerable achievement, with echoes of WINTER'S BONE in its celebration of the human spirit. And lest I make Farris Smith's novel sound too worthy, may I add it grips like a vice... ~ Maxim Jakubowski
In the vein of Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a roughand- tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect.
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In the vein of Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a roughand- tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect. For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sat in Parchman penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta.
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Desperation Road was written by Michael Farris Smith and published by No Exit Press an imprint of Oldcastle Books Ltd
Desperation Road has 287 pages
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