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Mother Howl

by Craig Clevenger
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For fans of Eileen and The Only Good Indians
Compelling literary crime that follows the son of a serial murderer who changes his identity in a bid to escape his past.
Sixteen-year-old Lyle Edison recognizes the face of a murder victim on the nightly news – the waitress at his local diner. A place he often frequented with his dad. The following day his father is arrested and charged with her murder. And then eight further bodies are discovered.
Following the revelation that his dad is in fact a serial killer, Lyle is outcast and shunned. Forced to abandon his family, illegally obtaining a new identity, he moves away to start all over again.
Some years later, Lyle thinks he has finally moved on. But after several brushes with the law, Lyle’s past eventually catches up to him when a mysterious stranger known only as Icarus shows up and seems to know Lyle’s secret...

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    June 13, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781915523105

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      • ISBN: 9781915523105
      • File size: 1826 KB

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    • English

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      Starred review from May 1, 2023
      When Lyle was a teenager when his father confessed to murdering nine women. Lyle and his mother were excoriated by the community; Lyle's mother withdrew, but Lyle, after numerous vicious beatings by haters, decided to flee. Being underage, he couldn't get a new identity legally, so he bought a forged one. Ever since, he's lived in fear of being discovered. His life is a mess. He struggles to hold a job, is arrested on a fake drug charge, spends time in prison, and builds up massive debts. Then he meets Sera; they fall in love, marry, and have a child, but even this may not be enough to save him. Alongside Lyle's story is that of Icarus, an alien being sent to Earth from his home among the stars by Mother Howl--a sort of divine, omniscient being--on an undefined mission. Given his weird appearance and actions once he lands on Earth, Icarus is taken for a homeless madman and sent to a mental hospital. Eager to complete his still-unknown mission and return to his distant home, Icarus escapes the hospital, and, in a shattering climax, his mission and Lyle's world collide. Dubbed "neo-noir," Clevenger's book is brilliant, original, and genre defying, veering from the mundane to the truly bizarre and from dark hopelessness to strangely hopeful.

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