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Book
The Long Division written by Derek Nikitas
About the book
An Atlanta housecleaner flees her nowhere life to reunite with the son she gave up for adoption. The teenage boy joins his longlost mother on an unlawful road trip that proves how much they both have to lose by finding each other. Elsewhere, a deputy must track down the shooter in a drug-related double murder before other investigators discover the deputy’s illicit ties to the case. The killer is an unbalanced college kid hunted by vengeful drug dealers and the police, haunted by loves both dead and for bidden. When the renegade mother and son arrive, past sins and present gambits will ensnare them in the violent endgame between the deputy and the desperate killer.
- Hardcover
- 306 pages
- Published October 2009
About the author
Derek was raised in New Hampshire and Western New York, where his first two novels take place. He received his undergrad degree in English from the State University of New York College at Brockport. Later, he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and he's currently pursuing an English PhD at Georgia State University. He has also been a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the brief residency MFA Program at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. |
