A Smile Shy bookcover

A Smile Shy

Dj Mendel 

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Description

In a dilapidated trailer park in rural 1990's Pennsylvania, whiskey-soaked Weezal Peterson works hard to forget his past-and largely succeeds. That is until he's targeted by Maisey, a smart and resourceful young woman on a mission to put a lifetime of poverty and domestic abuse behind her and find any old wealthy man who will share his fortune in exchange for female companionship-without the sex.

Is Weezal that man? It's hard to tell. He's forgotten how old he is. But Maisey is sure he's got a fortune somewhere. She's done the research.

What is Weezal trying to forget? Why is he drinking himself to death in a broken-down trailer park?

Of course, he can't remember.

But there's a disgraced billionaire and his violently psychotic sidekick, Teenage Jesus, cruising Pennsylvania in a baby blue Rolls Royce aiming to find and kill Weezal Peterson...


Product Details

PublisherElboro Press
Publish DateJanuary 05, 2021
Pages252
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781732181755
Dimensions8.3 X 5.5 X 0.5 inches | 0.6 pounds

About the Author

DJ Mendel is an actor, playwright, screenwriter and director born and raised in Pennsylvania who has worked extensively with avant-garde theater-maker Richard Foreman, independent filmmaker Hal Hartley, and singer Rosanne Cash. A Smile Shy is his first novel.

Reviews

For all the hard-drinking, violence, sloppy sex and banged-up inner lives of these characters, one is never fully prepared for the waves of sympathy that flow through this darkly funny novel. -HAL HARTLEY, writer/director of Henry Fool

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