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Tom Epperson, a native of Arkansas, headed west to Los Angeles with his boyhood friend Billy Bob Thornton to pursue a career in show business. Epperson’s co-written the scripts for One False Move, A Family Thing, The Gift, A Gun, a Car, a Blonde, and Jayne Mansfield’s Car. His L.A. noir The Kind One was nominated for both the Edgar Award and the Barry Award for Best First Novel. Three more books followed, Sailor, Roberto to the Dark Tower Came, and Make Believe. His most recent book is Baby Hawk, a novel in verse. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Stefani, two pampered cats, and two frisky dogs.
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Baby Hawk
A NOVEL IN VERSE
By Tom Epperson
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“Set in the near-future world where one woman may be all that remains of her gender, Baby Hawk is both a gripping story of captivity and resistance and a lyrical meditation on ecological collapse and the raw brutality of power. It’s visceral. It’s visionary. And it’s unlike anything you’ve ever read.”
—Terry Shepherd, award-winning podcaster.
—Terry Shepherd, award-winning podcaster.
“BABY HAWK” is a mesmerizing fable, a gorgeous adventure, a coming-of-age story, an outright shocker that runs in high gear from its hard-hitting first stanza to its remarkable conclusion. Masterfully written, this unique achievement will wow readers with explicit imagery and superb suspense. And it’s so much fun to read that the deep messages it carries about feminism and ecological devastation soar above the book’s heart-throbbing narrative and only fully settle into your bones when the story has ended.”
—Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld, poet, publisher, and podcaster.
—Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld, poet, publisher, and podcaster.
“Epperson could have written another noir, another screenplay. Instead, he has given us a novel in verse about a girl who will not accept the fate men assign her. It is his starkest work, but also his most distilled. Baby Hawk is not an epic, not an allegory, not a family drama. It is a ballad, fierce and pared to the bone, a survival song. And in its way, it feels like the culmination of his career, Arkansas boy turned screenwriter, turned novelist, turned poet again, still insisting that even in the darkest worlds, survival and dignity are worth the telling.”
—Phillip Martin, award-winning columnist and critic for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
—Phillip Martin, award-winning columnist and critic for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.