Author Description

ROAD STORY • SLOW BURN • LIGHT AND DARK • From the author of The Grey Translation series. A pulsing literary novella about a buddy quest that unravels in the heat of L.A., with echoes of Cormac McCarthy’s raw vision, Don DeLillo’s realism, and John Updike’s warm Americana sensibilities. IT IS 2014 in a suburb outside Seattle. Coaxed into tracking down a high school girlfriend turned famous, Keith Timmerman leaves his beloved grandfather at home and, with his friend and kid brother, sets forth down the coast. The shimmering L.A. heat brings the trio luck, but not all good. When a third party interferes, the road trip quickly devolves into nightmares and upheavals, to a violence cold even under the California sun. Evocative in style and acute in vision, Western States is a meditation on brotherhood, love, and the savage depths of man.