Cheng, Bill. Southern Cross the Dog. Ecco: HarperCollins. May 2013.336p. ISBN 9780062225009. $25.99;ebk. ISBN 9780062225030

摘要

Cheng, an author raised in Queens who lives in Brooklyn, NY, debuts with a novel in the great Southern tradition; think Cor-mac McCarthy or a 21st-century Faulkner. The story centers on Robert Chatham, a star-crossed African American whose games and first kiss are interrupted by the Mississippi flood of 1927. From the Hollan-dale refugee camp, Robert is hired as an errand boy at the Beau-Miel Hotel, a surreal brothel burned to the ground by a drunken music promoter.