Pacific: A Novel
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In a triumphant return to the characters that launched his career two decades ago, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism. Drury's depictions of the stark beauty of the Midwest and the futility of American wanderlust have earned him comparisons to Raymond Carver, Sherwood Anderson, and Paul Auster.
When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who deserted him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. He does new drugs with new people, falls in love with an enchanting but troubled equestrienne named Charlotte, and gets thrown out of school over the activities of a club called the New Luddites.
Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young woman comes to Stone City on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she meets—including Micah's half-sister, Lyris, who still fights fears of abandonment after a childhood in foster care, and Micah's father, Tiny, a petty thief. An investigation into the stranger's identity uncovers a darkly disturbed life, as parallel narratives of the comic and tragic, the mysterious and the everyday, unfold in both the country and the city.
A portrait of two disparate communities united by the restlessness and desperate hope of their residents, Drury's haunted souls, adrift between promise and circumstance, reveal our infinite capacity to "get in and out of trouble in unexpected ways" and still find a semblance of peace at the end.
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Jesse LaVercombe is a Toronto-based actor and writer originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Acting credits include productions at Tarragon Theatre, Marigny Opera House (New Orleans), PuSh, SummerWorks, Caravan Stage Company; TV: American Gods, The Detail, Salvation, Mayday; Feature Films: Flowers in the Field, Mary Goes Round, The Telephone Game, In Clamatore. His first play, Preacher Man, won the United Solo Festival’s “Best Short Solo Award" in NYC, and Love Me Forever Billy H. Tender played in Toronto, Kingston, and NYC, where it received praise from The New York Times, Stage Buddy, NY Theatre Guide, and more. His latest short film has so far played over thirty festivals (including SXSW, Slamdance, and BFI Flare: London) and taken home six awards. He was recently commissioned to write a new musical, and his upcoming adaptation of The Epic of Gilgamesh with Seth Bockley and Ahmed Moneka will be workshopped at The Guthrie and premiere in 2019 at the Pivot Arts Festival in Chicago.
Tom Drury is the author of several novels, including The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Mississippi Review, and he has been named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists.
