Please join us for a special event on Thursday June 27 at 6:15pm featuring Stephen Hundley to celebrate the release of his novel Bomb Island!
Part coming-of-age summer romance part thriller Bomb Island is a funny and fast-paced Southern novel exploring subculture communities survival and found family set on an island near an unexploded atomic bomb.
Summer is in full swing on Bomb Island Georgia. Fifteen-year-old Fish lives in a commune on the three-mile stretch of sand with his chosen family: their "mother-sage" Whistle and her white tiger Sugar a young man named Reef and an old man named Nutzo who is still missing. Fish and Whistle spend the days leading tours in their glass bottom boat out to the barrier island's namesake an unexploded atomic bomb.
This is the summer when Fish meets Celia the tattooed daughter of a troublesome local charter fisherman bent on exposing Whistle's commune--and their illegal tiger. When a party at her dad's place goes sour Fish brings Celia back to Bomb Island in the hope that she'll stay there with him. But they still can't find Nutzo the tiger's behavior has become increasingly erratic and everyone's summer is about to take a strange dark turn.
Narrated by an ensemble cast of uniquely independent outsiders who have chosen counter-culture lives informed by their desires and past traumas Bomb Island takes a rollicking journey through the weirds and wilds of Coastal Georgia. Stephen Hundley has crafted a spirited zany novel with a big heart that examines the strength it takes to live freely and without shame.
Stephen Hundley is the author of The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First (University of North Georgia Press 2023) and Bomb Island (Hub City Press 2024). He is a fiction editor at Driftwood Press a book review editor at the Southeast Review and his stories and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner Cream City Review The Greensboro Review and elsewhere. He holds an MA from Clemson an MFA from the University of Mississippi and is currently completing a PhD in English at Florida State University.
Event Venue
Longfellow Books, One Monument Way, Portland, ME 04101, United States
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