<p>A rented steam cleaner won't stop spilling blood. Employees of a New England pizzeria try to wait out a worsening snowstorm. A boy discovers that a specific hardwood at the edge of a boat graveyard will ultimately be responsible for his death. Professional movers with hexed pasts race toward the ocean after being exposed to asbestos. A woman trades her apartment for a lake inhabited by a giant snapping turtle. The stories of Mount Summer delve in people and towns left too long in the sun. They linger in the impermanence of beach communities and then follow their sunburned tourists back to the places they tried to leave. Presented by Out to Lunch Records.</p>

Mount Summer

Literature & Fiction

Dahlke, Travis

Genre Fiction

Out to Lunch Records

<p>"A man's face hangs in the heat outside my aunt's car. Years ago, before I was born, it was my face. In the here and now of this aspen-green pearl Toyota Camry, woozy from the hot Sprite fumes, I am a mulch dealer reincarnate."\nUnder the crush of heat waves that melt asphalt, rampant mortality rates, and a summer with her wine-soaked aunt, eleven-year-old Bermuda escapes through her past life as the Topsoil Baron: a man whose addiction to huffing cologne ads and Listerine keep him steady as he struggles to keep a declining mulch business afloat. As the Baron chases a hurricane that could save his livelihood, the threat of financial ruin looms larger and the seams of his marriage begin to split in ways he can't ignore. At the same time, the noises Bermuda hears coming from the forest surrounding her aunt's neighborhood are growing louder, unsettling plant life is sprouting everywhere, and remnants of her dead sister, Lorraine, intrude more often.\nWith a voice reminiscent of Jesse Ball's How to Set a Fire and Why, speaking from within a landscape like those found in Diane Cook's Man V. Nature, MILKSHAKE is a sludge ballad of reincarnation, suburban squalor, kids' meal toy burial grounds, mutant gators, fortune-telling mollusks, and the Low Country of Vermont. It is a sound like Doom, doom, doom, a fever dream of a novella in which fantasies of the mundane become an escape from a world in the throes of freak environmental crises. And it is, above all, the coming of a weird and talented new writer upon the land.</p>

Milkshake

Literary

Long Day Press

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