Michael Farris Smith is the award-winning author of Salvage This World, NICK, Blackwood, The Fighter, Desperation Road, Rivers, and The Hands of Strangers. His novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, NPR, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, Book Riot and numerous other outlets, and have been named Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. He has also written the feature-film adaptations of his novels Desperation Road and The Fighter, titled for the screen as Rumble Through the Dark. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and daughters.
This is just stunning ... Little short of perfection ... Think
Daniel Woodrell, Bill Beverly and Lou Berney for starters and that
will give you an idea of the style, the range and the humanity of
the novel
*Graham Minett, author of The Hidden Legacy*
A harsh but beautiful thriller that has you cheering under your
breath for its wounded, fallible protagonist throughout
*LoveReading*
Flickers with poetic splendour... Repetitions, the falling cadences
of country music, phrases strung together in long passages of
sustained beauty: it's rare for desperation to be rendered with
such intensity
*Spectator*
a wonderfully evoked and deeply touching work
*The Big Issue*
Michael Farris Smith's prose focuses on small details and has a
rhythm that gives it a poetic quality; a comparison with Annie
Proulx is not overly enthusiastic
*Crime Review*
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