Someone to Crawl Back to

By Phillip Gardner

SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they ve always wanted or what they ve eternally lost. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to wrecker drivers, drive-thru fast food workers, college professors, bartenders, insurance and mobile homes salesmen. Their common ground is The Paradise Lounge. The death of a marriage, Joshua and Rene Serverance s, forms the spine of the book, but included in this small community of seekers are George Scarborough and his softball-playing wife; Evander Baker, who helps his sister bury a bag of chocolate chip cookies near the septic line; and Warren Oxendine, whose wife buys a vibrator at a yard sale. Structured more like a Robert Altman film than a traditional novel, reading SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is like going to The Paradise Lounge for a drink, slipping inside a patron s skin, going home with that person, then coming back to The Paradise and leaving with another sojourner of love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188642098X
• ISBN13: 9781886420984
• Release Date: January 1900
• Publisher: Bitingduck Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"