Early Reviewers

The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First showcases sixteen bizarre, hard-loving stories set in the foothills, pinelands, low country, and barrier islands of Georgia, and a few other places too. In its pages, a boy and girl find a body on the marsh, a delusional nude model takes on the fight of his life, and a diver visits a sleeping nuclear bomb just a mile from the beach. Tourists eat shrimp and cheer for the dolphins, while a man falls in love with his television and a handy-woman sees jellyfish-like travelers from outer space.

Hundley’s men and women grapple with death, distant lovers, and damaged families as well as sharks, stray dogs, and man-eating tigers. This debut collection offers an intimate glimpse into a working class, American south populated by people who have made themselves acolytes of existential powers—weapons of mass destruction and alien invasions, the wide ocean and desperate love. This is a book for dreamers and space cadets, for fighters and providers, for anyone who believes in a connection between the places we come from and the people we become.