Soil: A Novel

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Soil: A Novel

In this darkly comic, â€œpromising debut from an assured new voice in Southern fictionâ€ (Library Journal), an idealistic young farmer moves his family to a Mississippi flood basin, suffers financial ruinâ€”and becomes increasingly paranoid heâ€™s being framed for murder.

It all begins with a simple dream. An ambitious young environmental scientist hopes to establish a sustainable farm on a small patch of land nestled among the Mississippi hills. Jay Mize convinces his wife Sandy to move their six-year-old son away from town and to a rich and lush parcel where Jacob could run free and Jay could pursue the dream of a new and progressive agriculture for the twenty-first century. Within a year heâ€™d be ruined.

When the corpse appears on his familyâ€™s property, Jay is convinced heâ€™s being set up. And so beings a journey into a maze of misperceptions and personal obsessions, as the farmer, his now-estranged wife, a predatory deputy, and a backwoods wanderer, all try to uphold a personal sense of honor. By turns hilarious and darkly disturbing, Soil traces one manâ€™s apocalypse to its epic showdown in the Mississippi mudflats. â€œThe Coen brothers meets Flannery Oâ€™Connor. Itâ€™s definitely Gothic, itâ€™s definitely dark, but at the same time, it is hilarious and heartbreakingâ€ (Kyle Jones, NPR).

Drawing on elements of classic Southern noir, dark comedy, and modern dysfunction, Jamie Kornegayâ€™s novel is about the gravitational pull of one manâ€™s apocalypse and the hope that maybe, just maybe, he can be reeled in from the brink. â€œDig your hands into this Soil to find gutty and peppery writing, an almost recklessly bold imagination, audacious empathy, and a story so twisty and volatile that nearly every turn feels electrifyingly unexpectedâ€ (Jonathan Miles, award-winning author of Want Not and Dear American Airlines).

Country	USA
Author	Jamie Kornegay
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781476750903
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfPages	369
PublicationDate	2015-03-10
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2015-03-10
Studio	Simon & Schuster

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