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by Boston Teran (Author)
For a generation now, the internationally award-winning author Boston Teran has been writing about America and the moral territory of its soul. Many of his novels are translated into foreign languages, and he has been named alongside great American writers, including Hemingway and Larry McMurtry, filmmakers John Ford and Sam Peckinpah,
Forthcoming September 2026
In August 1965, a car bomb detonated outside a Bronx diner. As debris rained down, hundreds of snapshots fluttered through the smoke. One photo captured the truth of the moment: graffiti scrawled on a tenement wall-
America v America
Outcome Uncertain
That is the world of Burn Everything...Then Forget It. At its center: Viola Dash and Billy Castle - a girl born into privilege and a boy marked forever by the subway killing of his mother. Their love story becomes the pulse of a nation on the edge, in a year when idealism collided with the misguided pursuers of power and political control. Corruption was more than just social hearsay, it was a disease. Treachery hid behind polite façades, and duplicity arrived packaged as patriotism.
Viola and Billy each carry a secret inheritance: fathers whose shared, covert careers served the darkest ambitions of the nation. And now it is their children who stand in the way - Viola for what she knows, Billy for what he refuses to forget.
Burn Everything...Then Forget It seeks to reframe America's legacy of racism, covert violence, and social manipulation - and to give voice to a generation raised on hope, only to be warned by history itself: Beware of justice.
Author Biography
For a generation now, the internationally award-winning author Boston Teran has been writing about America and the moral territory of its soul. Many of his novels are translated into foreign languages, and he has been named alongside great American writers, including Hemingway and Larry McMurtry, filmmakers John Ford and Sam Peckinpah, as well as renowned painters and artists for his far reaching vision of time, place and humanity. His cult novel, GOD IS A BULLET, was adapted to film and released in theaters in June 2023, starring Jamie Foxx, written by Teran and directed by Nick Cassavetes. NEVER COUNT OUT THE DEAD has been called a modern equivalent of Macbeth. THE CREED OF VIOLENCE is currently in film development with Universal Studios. His DEFIANT AMERICANS SERIES have been praised for confronting an America mired in hatred and human corruption, injustice, racism and inequality, and his characters' quest for moral order and redemption. The author has won countless awards, including The American Fiction Award for "Adventure: Historical," the GRAND PRIX CALIBRE 38, the Stephen Crane Literary Award for "First Fiction," the Fiction Lovers Association of Japan Award for "Best Novel," the Benjamin Franklin Award in the LGBTQ+ and Historical category, and the John Creasey Award for "Best Novel" by the British Crime Writers Association. Nominations include The Edgar Award for "Best First Novel," the Foreword Reviews "Book of the Year Award," and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for "Best Novel."
