Reverend America Author:Kris Saknussemm An aging albino nicknamed Casper travels home to Joplin, Missouri seeking refuge, only to find himself rescuing a pregnant teenage prostitute and embarking on a journey to the deep South. From the tornado ravaged landscape of Oklahoma where they meet an escaped old folksinger in the ruins of a demolished nursing home to the eccentric streets... more » of Austin, Texas, their fugitive search for salvation ends finally in the bayous of Louisiana. Throughout the journey, memories of violence and sadness haunt Casper as a cast of characters as colorful and peculiar as America?s own history lead them to find something beyond all their individual expectations. In the tradition of Flannery O?Connor?s Wise Blood and Carl Hiaasen?s Lucky You, this dark comedy mixes the old with the new, inviting us into a fresh and uniquely meaningful story. « less