Cadillac Orpheus: A Novel

Inspired by Carl Hiaasen and Victor D. LaValle in equal measure, Solon Timothy Woodward mines the nether regions of Florida in search of high drama and raucous comedy. Full of sex, death, and humor, this bawdy, brilliant debut introduces us to three generations of a family in the boisterous, unholy, uncompromising landscape that is the South of today.

Nowhere are the careless vagaries of fate more evident than in a town called Johnsonville on the northern Florida coast, where a family cal...