Socket

by David Zimmerman

Fiction. African American Studies. Winner, 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest (2001). SOCKET tells the gripping tale of Ronald Percy, an international aid worker who travels to Ethiopia to assist with an irrigation project for the African Development Organization. Upon arrival, he is unable to locate his agents or company representatives, and soon finds himself enmeshed in a web of bureaucracy and state corruption. SOCKET was selected as the Grand Winner from over 400 entries in the 2001 International 3-Day Novel Writing Contest.

"engrossing"— The Globe and Mail

"The language is vivid and economical, and the plot charges ahead with relentless momentum."— Broken Pencil

"The story is so tightly written that you can't put it down."— Geist

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

David Zimmerman was raised in Atlanta, Georgia and attended Emerson College and the University of Alabama. He spent several years living and working in Brazil and Ethiopia. After winning the Three-Day-Novel Contest, Anvil Press published the resulting novella, Socket. His debut novel, The Sandbox, was published by Soho Press in 2010, and his newest novel, Caring is Creepy, will be released in April of 2012. He now teaches at Iowa State University.