Southern Cross the Dog

Bill Cheng

may, 2013 · Pan Macmillan

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When the Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi, eight-year-old Robert Chatham loses everything.

Robert’s adventures in the brooding swamplands – from hard labour to imprisonment to thwarted love – are full of courage, danger and heartbreak. This is story of how a small, hurt boy becomes a tough, young man: forced to choose between the lure of the future and the claims of his past.

Set against one of the great American landscapes, Southern Cross the Dog is a mesmerizing and savagely beautiful novel. It marks the arrival of Bill Cheng as a writer of astonishing gifts.

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Bill Cheng has received a B.A. in Creative Writing from Baruch College and is a graduate of Hunter College’s MFA program. Born and raised in Queens, New York, he currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife. Southern Cross the Dog is his first novel and has received praise from National Book Award-winner Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin, Pulitzer prize-winner and author of The Known World, Edward P Jones, and Nathan Englander, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.