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Knuckle Bear is both enlivened and burdened by a fractured language, inherited from the settlers who first came to the North Carolina mountains from the hills and valleys of Scotland and Ulster to claim this wild land. It is a language that is broken and crippled, violent and near violent, innocent and depraved, and loving and brutal as these characters. As author of The Iguana Tree, Michel Stone notes, "If Tim Peeler were a novelist he'd have written Deliverance, only even somehow more Deliverance than the Deliverance Dickey wrote. I couldn't stop reading. Like when you pass a horrific train wreck and instead of turning away you hit the brakes, got to keep looking to see how bad this all ends up for those unfortunate people. There is no way it is going to be remotely okay. And yet, farther in, I am feeling sympathy and EMPATHY for the whole lot of them, and then the ending after all this hard, dark, strange stuff was so sweet and good I could almost cry."

It is a hot, sultry summer in Little Dixie, Oklahoma in the 1970s. A young man commits a robbery that forever changes the course of his life and those around him. Dually, BS explores the ironies and circumstances of the human condition, and how grace restores and redeems the human spirit. Rural poverty and injustices assert themselves as the norm not the exception in Steven L. Parker's debut novel that captivates and charms; by the end of the novel the reader will feel he or she lives in Crow, Oklahoma, the setting of this narrative. An exciting read by an author who knows the interior terrain of the human heart, the traditions of a unique rural heartland, and most importantly, how to convincingly portray the universal human condition.