Ry Burke, his little sister Sarah and his mother live on a dying farm in the Iowa countryside. When Ry's father, Marvin, had been sent to jail 9 years before for an unspeakable crime against his family, it was like the farm refused to be tended by any other hands. Ry loves the farm, but his mother is anxious to leave and start a new life in town. Today was to be their final day, they would celebrate, pack up, watch the forecasted meteor shower and tomorrow morning start their new life.
But the best laid plans....
The first warning should have been the escaped convict at their door asking for food and his story of an explosion ripping through the nearby jail, leaving a wide open hole for him to walk through. The second warning should have been that he knew Ry's father and had spent time in prison with him. A prison much closer than the one Ry's family believed him to be in.
When Marvin shows up, the madness begins and you the reader feel as though you have suffered a psychotic break. What is reality and what is in the mind? Ry's childhood friends come back again to help him deal with his father - a stuffed bear named Mr. Furrington, a plastic figurine of Jesus Christ and the sharp-toothed steel doll, Scowler. But will his childhood friends (imaginings, mirages?) be enough to rid his family of his father for good?
Check this horribly wonderful book out at FPL today! Scowler by Daniel Kraus
