Southern Cross the Dog

by Bill Cheng

Book Overview

In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor, Bill Cheng's Southern Cross the Dog is an epic literary debut in which the bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In its aftermath, one young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the past.

Having lost virtually everything in the fearsome storm--home, family, first love--Robert Chatham embarks on an odyssey...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062225006
• ISBN13: 9780062225009
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"