

The police have ruled it a suicide, but Andrew Blur-Eddie’s best friend and foster brother-knows that there’s more to it than that.Īfter all, Andrew and Eddie are cursed. In this privileged setting, a young man, Eddie Fulton, has been found dead in the woods. Written by Kentucky resident Lee Mandelo, the book takes place at Vanderbilt University, a very well-to-do school in Nashville, Tennessee that’s got enough prestige and culture to impress rich parents who don’t want to send their kids past the Mason-Dixon. Summer Sons rips itself out of Appalachian places-Tennessee lowlands, Georgia high country, Kentucky caves-and offers its men up on a platter, daring you to taste.

It’s got pollen in its throat, sweat in its eyes, and a trucker hat on backwards.

It’s southern, but in the way you only notice near dusk, when blue lightning bugs come out and dance in tandem.
