num_pages: 466
description: In this shattering and iconic American novel PEN prize-winning writer Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom community grace suspicion and anarchy brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions.After trying to help Benjamin Pearl an undernourished nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father Jeremiah. With courage and caution Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times.But as Pete's own family spins out of control Benjamin's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I. putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.
language: English
title: Fourth of July Creek
publisher: Ecco