Two Legs Bad

Tartts Award Winner! Come and meet the Delta’s two-legged mongrels, great beasts of contrast and contradiction in a lush green water world. In these pages, the local pyromaniac sells the romance in arson and an obsessed amputee stalks a celebrated boxer. Snake handlers and prim missionaries are held in equal regard. A Russian chess master speaks from the grave, and a conversational dog utters a sacred word. Mutants with twisted bodies teach the art of perfection. A dead glutton creates a crisis for a burned-out minister, and behind the shed, a barbeque grill doubles as a crematorium. Walk softly because the loamy soil pushes bones to the surface where they move about in unnerving ways. In the swamp, nothing stays still, so you’d better keep moving. It’s the surest way to avoid being arrested. Or eaten.