Fourth of July Creek

In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions.

After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times.

But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I., putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 03/10/2015
ISBN: 9780062286468
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.20d

Review Citations: People Weekly 04/06/2015 pg. 40
New York Times Book Review 03/29/2015 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 04/10/2015 pg. 66