Book description
May Lynn was a pretty girl from a mean family who dreamed of becoming
a film star. Now she's dead - her body dredged up from the Sabine
River, bound with wire and weighted down.
Her best friend, Sue Ellen, has a family meaner than May's and a
yearning for something greater than she's been given. She thinks the
least she can do for her friend is take her ashes to Hollywood, and
place them on her favourite actor's grave.
But May Lynn's diary holds a secret: the location of a large sum of
money. What seems like a stroke of fortune has disastrous
consequences, and Sue Ellen's escape is about to get more complicated
than she'd ever imagined.
'Dark and comic, bleak and terrifying, romantic and endearing...This,
I kid you not, is the Great American Novel of the year.' Joe R.
Lansdale is the author of more than a dozen novels, including
Sunset
and Sawdust
,
Rumble Tumble
and
The Bottoms
. He has received the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award,
the Edgar Award, the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature, and seven
Bram Stoker Awards. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.
