Book Giveaway For The Dying Horse

[close] "Natural disasters are running wild. The world is ending. Cats are talking. In the wake of an apocalypse, a young man is on a journey, of sorts, and along the way he meets a strange cast of characters who may or may not get in his way. The line between the real and surreal is a thin one in Jason Jordan's wildly entertaining The Dying Horse. With wry humor, Jordan tells the story of a man who just wants to find his way to some kind of home."
—Roxane Gay, author of Ayiti

"When the end of the world creeps up on us, Jason Jordan's The Dying Horse will be our atlas. Showing a genius for blending humanity and WTF?, he builds an apocalyptic road trip/manhunt painted in the colors of the suburbs. In Jordan's world, cats get conversational and every rotted-out corner hides a dose of bleakness and twisted black humor. Trust me, you'll want to play a round of Who Gets the Ax? after reading this book."

—Patrick Wensink, author of Black Hole Blues and Sex Dungeon for Sale!

"The Dying Horse is the most easy-going novella about the apocalypse that I've ever read. When faced with an abandoned interstate not unlike the one in Cormac McCarthy's The Road, the narrator simply tells us 'this blows,' and keeps walking. Jason Jordan has done something incredibly tricky here; he presents a convincing timeline for how the world might end, and, thanks to his winning narrator, Erik, makes it seem funny. And, yes, talking cats certainly don't hurt."

—Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang and Tunneling to the Center of the Earth [close]