The Phalanx of Houston

"If Tom Waits were a novelist, he'd write like Walter Moore. Gravelly and soulful, The Phalanx of Houston is a bighearted novel of barrooms, back alleys, and one man's search for a lost friend."

-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry, Northwest of Normal

"Bjorn's return home is a funny and fast-paced few days in the musical and bleary-eyed corners of Houston. As he tries to sort out why his old friend died, he discovers that we never truly sever ourselves from family, from the place we were r...