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The story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys ... including East's hothead younger brother ... to kill a key witness hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an America that is entirely alien to him, ultimately forcing him to grapple with his place in the world and decide what kind of man he wants to become.
About the Author
Bill Beverly grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He studied at Oberlin College in the '80s and the University of Florida in the '90s. He lives in Hyattsville, Maryland, with his family.
His first novel, DODGERS, is forthcoming from Crown in 2016. It is the story of East, a sharp, quiet 15-year-old who guards a drug house in LA. When, one morning, his life suddenly changes, he finds himself thrust into a mission that is out of his depth -- and the blood he finds on his hands is not the blood he expected. Halfway across an American landscape that is alien to him, he must decide which way to go -- and which person to become.
His fiction has appeared in The Mississippi Review, Indy Men's Magazine, and is forthcoming in Gargoyle.
His Florida dissertation on representations of criminal fugitives in the 1930s and 1940s became his first book, ON THE LAM.
He was an editor of the well-regarded literary magazine 32 POEMS, and coedited an anthology of that work, OLD FLAME, published in 2013.
He teaches by day at Trinity College in Washington, DC.
