Tim’s Reviews > The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel > Status Update

I saw Rob Spillman talk about authority in fiction recently. How swiftly and unequivocally Lock establishes his--lures us into his Mississippi, free-floating yet rooted, like duckweed: "What I hope to tell if I can find the words and can bear the sometimes bitter recollection is terrible: an abomination dragged up from the mind's reeking bottom like a dead woman asleep inside the closed petals of her sodden skirts."