Minnow

Minnow
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Minnow is an otherworldly story of a small boy who leaves his dying father’s bedside hunting a medicine for a mysterious illness. Sent by his mother to a local druggist in their seaside village, Minnow unexpectedly takes a dark and wondrous journey deep into the ancient Sea Islands, seeking the grave dust of a long-dead hoodoo man to buy him a cure. With only a half-feral dog at his side, Minnow’s odyssey is haunted at every turn by the agents of Sorry George, a witch doctor who once stirred up a fever that killed fifty-two men. Meanwhile, a tempest brews out at sea, threatening to bring untold devastation to the coastal way of life. Minnow is a remarkable debut novel that evokes the fiction of Karen Russell and Lauren Groff—a Lowcountry “Heart of Darkness” about the mysteries of childhood, the sacrifices we make to preserve our families, and the ghosts that linger in the Spanish moss of the South Carolina barrier islands.

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James E. McTeer II. Minnow

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For my parents, Thomas and Kathleen McTeer

They took turns telling stories around a small fire in their hideout. The slanting scrap-metal roof was rusted with enough holes to chimney the smoke, but the inside still swirled with a dim haze. Curtains of gray Spanish moss hung down across each open end, keeping out the early morning light.

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Minnow looked down at his shoes. He had a dollar. For medicine and a soda. But if the medicine was less, he could skip the soda and his mother wouldn't be mad, and it would be the same, really.

He dug the billfold out and flung it open, spilling the dollar onto the bar. The man laughed and clapped one hand over the bill and dragged it across the wood until it dropped off the edge into his other hand. He took two quarters from a pocket on his apron and put them on the wood. They rang dully, and one spun in a circle before it lay flat.

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