Find Your Own Way Home

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Winner of the 2023 Livingston Press Changing Light Award for Best Verse Novel

“The story unfolds in a perfectly rendered, hardscrabble South seen through the eyes of working-class people with industrial-strength vehicles navigating an archipelago of strip malls and truck plazas connected by roaring interstates and shadowy county roads. The writing is grounded in plain, earthy English but has a musicality that makes it feel like a biblical parable or a hillbilly highwayman’s ballad. Readers will be captivated by the dark, hallucinatory vision and gorgeous language. This gripping, kaleidoscopic crime novel has a gritty tone infused with plangent emotion.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Find Your Own Way Home is a collision of criminality and verse. It’s a beautifully conceived distillation of desperation and reality, a lyrical ode to the essence of noir.”

—Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestselling author of Blind to Midnight

"Beginning in the voice of a punchline villain and ending with a philosophically rapturous finale, Find Your Own Way Home is a deep meditation on loneliness, the reverberations of violence, and ‘homelessness.’ Jumping between multiple perspectives—from a female truck driver to a wandering preacher to a police detective—the book constructs a cutthroat world that bends meticulously around perception, vengeance, and the sticky tethers that bind us to the worst versions of our humanity. This tightly wound novel in verse renders a raw world that we can’t resist: a cyclic cosmos of darkness that spreads like our interstate highways. A brilliant and necessary read."

—Jessica Q. Stark, author of Buffalo Girl 

“A verse novel that is lyrical, complex, and suspenseful, highly compelling and unpredictable in its sense of character, and supremely evocative of the atmosphere of contemporary Arkansas and Tennessee in which it is set. The lives and stories that this book depicts are deeply moving.”

– Nicholas Birns, author of Theory after Theory, Cultural Encounters, and The Hyperlocal