“A novel of wonder and horror.”
— William Shunn, author of The Accidental Terrorist
AVAILABLE TO ORDER AT YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE, AMAZON.COM, OR BARNESANDNOBLE.COM.
Please support independent booksellers whenever possible! Independent booksellers that stock Urbantasm include:
Comma Bookstore (Flint, MI)
27th Letter Books (Detroit, MI)
Urbantasm is a magical teen noir serial novel inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in and around Flint, Michigan.
Thirteen-year-old John Bridge’s plans include hooking up with an eighth-grade girl and becoming one of the most popular kids at Radcliffe Junior High, but when he steals a pair of strange blue sunglasses from a homeless person, it drops him into the middle of a gang war overwhelming the once-great Rust Belt town of Akawe.
John doesn’t understand why the sunglasses are such a big deal, but everything, it seems, is on the table. Perhaps he accidentally offended the Chalks, a white supremacist gang trying to expand across the city. Maybe the feud involves his friend Selby, whose father died under mysterious circumstances. It could even have something to do with O-Sugar, a homegrown drug with the seeming ability to distort space. On the night before school began, a group of teenagers took O-Sugar and leapt to their deaths from an abandoned hospital.
John struggles to untangle these mysteries while adjusting to his new school, even as his parents confront looming unemployment and as his city fractures and burns.
Learn more about Urbantasm, Book One: The Dying City here.