Soil cover art

Soil

Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options
Buy Now for £15.30

Buy Now for £15.30

About this listen

It begins as a simple dream. An idealistic environmental scientist moves his wife and young son off the grid, to a stretch of river-bottom farmland in the Mississippi hills, hoping to position himself at the forefront of a revolution in agriculture.

Within a year he is ruined.

When a corpse appears on his family's property, the farmer is convinced he's being set up. And so begins a journey into a maze of misperceptions and personal obsessions as the farmer, his now-estranged wife, a predatory deputy, and a backwoods wanderer all try to uphold a personal sense of honour.

By turns hilarious and darkly disturbing, Soil traces one man's apocalypse to its epic showdown in the Mississippi mudflats.

©2015 Copyright © Jamie Kornegay 2015 (P)2015 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Marriage Witty Mississippi

Critic reviews

"[Listeners will] applaud the arrival of an exquisitely deranged new voice to American fiction." (Jonathan Miles)
No reviews yet