The World Beneath A Novel [Paperback]

One cold November morning in Perser, Oklahoma, Sheriff Jerry Martin receives a disturbing call: a local fifteen-year-old has disappeared. The boy, J.T., who is half Mexican, half Chickasaw and has been raised by his grandmother, is known for starting trouble. Sheriff Martin sets out on a fevered search, determined to find J.T., even as the hunt reopens wounds from a traumatic event in his past. In a seemingly parallel but ultimately intersecting story, Hickson Crider, a veteran of the first Iraq war, discovers a mysterious crevice, perfectly round and seemingly bottomless, in his backyard. The hole becomes Hicksons obsessionand an ominous clue in Sheriff Martins investigation.Aaron Gwyns perceptive, quietly beautiful prose is reminiscent of Flannery OConnor (A mesmerizing literary novel that begins when a boy goes missingand winds into an obsessive hunt with murderous results.