Go with Me: A Novel [Paperback]

A young woman recently relocated to a tiny Vermont logging town, Lillian is menaced by a mysterious stalker named Blackway. This one man—who kills her cat, forces her boyfriend to flee the state in terror, and silently threatens her very existence—is a force little understood by the local figures to whom she turns for help. Yet, in this spare and powerful tale, Lillian enlists the powerful brute Nate and the curmudgeonly Lester to take the fight to her tormenter as a raggedy quartet of town elders ponders her likely fate. With simple strength and extraordinary force, Go with Me is a riveting modern fable of good provoked to resist evil.

Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy...Go With Me is at once wry, primal, epic and impossible to put down. Im telling you the same thing I told the writer Richard Price: You must read this.[An] elegant little thriller about cunning versus cruelty . . . [a] pure delight, thanks to Freemans streamlined storytelling, dead-on dialogue, and lyrical descriptions of the bleak, woodsy landscape. This is a meticulous New England miniature, with not a wasted word.This nimble thriller is the literary equivalent of a fierce bantamweight fighter: Short but muscular and lightning quick, it packs a surprising punch . . . Freeman has a flawless ear for dialogue and a sharp eye for quirky detail . . . Superb.What a spiffy little yarn, loose and funny and, at a few key junctures, righteously bloody...The book takes just a few hours to read--about the running time of the swell indie movie someone should make from this offbeat charmer.Like its young heroine, Lillian, Freemans trim powerhouse is a pistol. &Freemans beautifully cadenced dialogue is rich with humor, philosophic depth and a near-mythic sensibility.GO WITH ME ambles along with that & mixture of corny irony and shrewd wisdom& These guys have a sweetness and slyness about them thats affecting. They dont change, Freeman writes. Time doesnt pass for them. You lc)