Sean Carswell
Train Wreck Girl
$14.95

After finding his girlfriend dead on the railroad tracks right after breaking up with her, Danny McGregor—Flagstaff bartender and surfer without an ocean—rides the next bus out of Arizona, fleeing to his Cocoa Beach, Florida hometown, where a maelstrom of past ghosts await.

Back in Florida, his treacherous friend, Bart, finds Danny a job picking up corpses. Sophie, former crazy girlfriend who stabbed Danny, wants to rekindle the relationship. Taylor, a 12-year-old neighborhood girl, only wants Danny to teach her to surf. And then there’s Helen, with a face that
launched a dozen Greyhounds.

Through the chaos, Danny discovers his strengths amid all his
weaknesses, and is able to move forward while making peace with his past.

A great narrative filled with memorable characters, Train Wreck Girl would fit right in on a reader's bookshelf between Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans and Joe Meno's Hairstyles of the Damned.

Sean Carswell is a former carpenter, housepainter, dishwasher, and warehouse clerk. His fiction has appeared in dozens of literary journals. He has been a staff writer for Flipside, Clamor, and Ink 19,
and is a regular contributor to Razorcake. A co-founder of Gorsky Press, he is currently a professor at a university in California.

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