Foote: A Mystery Novel
West Virginia University Press:
Morgantown: 2022
First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New,
244 pp.
Cover artwork by: Rachel Willey
"The first thing to say about Foote is that it is a strange and seemingly untenable hybrid of bigfoot fantasy and detective novel noir; the second is that its matter-of-fact voice and deeply authentic setting in the hollows of West Virginia render every part of the story perfectly real and entirely (marvelously) ordinary. This is a novel that uses moonshine heritage to delve into the modern opioid epidemic, and a novel that asks about the meaning of 'otherness' while reminding us what it means to be human. I fell into this book and loved it from the first page." #76341
Price: $19.99