Roosevelt, Michigan

As Clueless brought Emma by Austen into the 1990s, Roosevelt, Michigan reimagines The Great Gatsby for troubadours in 2012. Welcome to an unforgettable celebration no one wants to end--until people start dying. Word by word, Dylan James Brock's take on a Michigan county summons the spirit of Fitzgerald and sets it in a world where Faulkner would feel at home. Roosevelt, Michigan is a novel inspired by all night house shows and early morning benders, where no one is sure what's in the punch but everyone is enjoying the journey. With painstaking attention to source material, Brock captures the spirit of Gatsby and takes him home to the Great Lakes. Buddy Henshaw is a folk musician and teenage orphan who lit out on a cross-country filmmaking project. After nearly killing his first love and collaborator Lily by falling asleep at the wheel, he flees her angry family for New York City, leaving her convinced he is dead. When he returns home to Michigan a decade later and founds an artists' colony in a desolate downtown, he hopes to recapture Lily, but ends up partying his way into a series of murders instead. Ultimately, casualties mount from battles between his artistic and romantic ambitions, and Buddy's friends are left to deal with the wreckage that remains.

• • Author: Dylan James Brock
• • Publisher: Verisimi Lit
• • Publication Date: June 14, 2021
• • Number of Pages: 200 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 0578914964
• • ISBN-13: 9780578914961