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About meMy first novel, Rock Bottom, came out this month via Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company. I am Lecturer at the University of Michigan, where I received an MFA in Creative Writing. Stories of mine have appeared in The Sun, Fugue, and Other Voices. I'm working on a novel that takes place in 1820s England.
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Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.
If you'd like to read the first chapter, you can read it here:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id...
Take care,
Chris
posted by cmtusa at 10:24 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2009
~ Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
posted by theoldman at 8:51 am (EST) on Jan 31, 2009