Nazareth, North Dakota
''Tommy Zurhellen's Nazareth transports us to a North Dakota unlike any we've encountered on I-94: abandoned infants, escaped elephants, and a cast of characters whose misadventures reach proportions downright Biblical.  Don't miss this writer's ambitious debut.''--Wendy Rawlings, author of The Agnostics and Come Back Irish''In Nazareth, North Dakota, Tommy Zurhellen performs miraculous midwifery, birthing a magical transubstantiation of stories into novel, a mash-up of modernized mythologies with sheer mythic modernity. This hermeneutic hybrid presents as grand opera spread out on the plain plains, the baddest of Badlands, where the ordinary is made strange, the strange as ordinary as ordinary can be.  Simply epiphanic!''--Michael Martone, author of Double-wide and The Blue Guide to Indiana ''A large-hearted book ... written with empathy, force, and verve.''--Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies and The Signal ''Richly imagined and so very poignant this novel Nazareth, North Dakota ...is something special.'' ----Robert Olmstead, author ofCoal Black HorseandFar Bright Star