Muddled Cherries John Burgoyne with no assets beyond his

with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair

each one featuring a loving affirmation and a hand-drawn illustration of the little frog

” —Elizabeth Kolbert

But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis

Muddled Cherries John Burgoyne with no assets beyond hisIt's the spring of 2009 in Deer Valley, Wisconsin, and with the crack of a screen door, twenty year old Emily Schmidt's life is about to change. Born and raised and still living in The Honky Tonk, her dad's flagging tavern, Emily's tired of the patrons' same old conversations, the jukebox's same old sad songs, and her dad's same old drunken tirades. Loyal, but lonely and struggling with an unsettling incident with one of the regulars, she's secretly