Michael Farris Smith is the award-winning author of Salvage This World, NICK, Blackwood, The Fighter, Desperation Road, Rivers, and The Hands of Strangers. His novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, NPR, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, Book Riot and numerous other outlets, and have been named Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. He has also written the feature-film adaptations of his novels Desperation Road and The Fighter, titled for the screen as Rumble Through the Dark. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and daughters.
Smith's novel is transcendent, a chilling portrayal of a man and
world broken by unspeakable suffering but sustained, however
feebly, by a spark of hope
*America Magazine*
Eminently readable
*Times*
Surprisingly charismatic Nick is a portrait of man carved in
emotion that is unconventional, seductive, almost poetic in its
narrative and beautifully crafted
*Blue Wolf Reviews*
Michael Farris Smith contextualises the actions of a central
character in a seminal piece of literature, managing to potentially
deepen that work without impinging too heavily on it
*PS News*
Skillfully written
*Queensland Reviewers Collective*
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