Riverside Blues
by Erik Tomblin

Description:
"Like a twisted cross between Flannery O' Connor and Joe R. Lansdale, Erik doesn't just tell us about the deep South in RIVERSIDE BLUES, he takes us there. We are immersed in the lonely world of a poor old man whose existence is defined by the grief that still grips his soul following the loss of his first love half a century ago. We watch, wishing we could ease this poor man's suffering, as he begins to metaphorically clear a path to his own mental well-being fifty years too late . only to discover something that has stepped from both his wildest dreams and his darkest nightmares. We know his grief. We share his terror. And we feel his rage as old sins make themselves known bit by terrible bit . . . ." (from the introduction by James Newman)