A powerful book, an unflinching examination of two centuries of American yearning and desire.
-Colum McCann,TheNew York Times Book Review
In a crowded amphitheater in Queens, a nervous twelve-year-old Josiah Laudermilk steps to the stage to deliver his first sermon to thousands of waiting believers. A prodigy, they called him, the next in a long line of faithful men. Decades later, though, after a failed marriage and years away from the church and his home, Josiah (now Josie) finally returns to Queens to check on his father, who seems to be losing his grip on reality. Barreling through the old neighborhood, he's flooded with memories of his past, but when he finally arrives at his family's old house, he's completely unprepared for what he finds. Reaching from 1980 Queens to present-day sunny California to a tent revival in nineteenth-century rural Kentucky,High as the Horses' Bridlesis an imaginative and heartbreaking debut from a bold new American voice.
Scott Cheshireearned his MFA from Hunter College. He is the interview editor at the
Tottenville Reviewand teaches writing at the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop. His work has been published in
Slice,
AGNI,
Guernicaand the Picador anthology
The Book of Men. He lives in New York City.
Daring and brilliant...Cheshire captures the anguish that has always driven people of faith -- or no faith -- toward the unbridled promise of a time when 'there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.' No matter what you believe, fiction writing that delivers us to a moment like that is something of a miracle. Ron Charles,Washington Post
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