Heathens and Liars of Lickskillet County: A Novel

By Derek Berry

Declin Ostrander is an unwilling nomad always moving from town to town. His father works as a lawyer for the Knights of Southern Heritage, a thinly disguised white supremacy movement. Right now, they're in Lickskillet, S.C. where Mr. Ostrander plans to defend a man accused in a racially motivated murder. As far as Declin's concerned, it's more of the same: new town, new school, new, batch of all-too-familiar bigoted towns people. Constantly moving schools does give him the opportunity to continuously reinvent himself through lies, imagination and the gullibility of his fellow students. Surrounded by social segregation, class division and ingrained resistance to change on the part of the townsfolk, Declin and five fellow high school seniors will launch a rebellion against their expected roles life. In doing so, they'll discover the truth behind Lickskillet's dirty secrets.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984014276
• ISBN13: 9780984014279
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: PRA Publishing
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 14 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 9 to Postsecondary