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by Steven Faulkner (Author)
Two young Russians, caught by the winds of ideology, row their boat down the Volga River to take in the heartland of Russia in 1939, more than twenty years after the Revolution. A teenager and his young brother are the first two humans to be born on Mars, the only two still alive. A successful graphic designer in Kansas City abandons wife and child for two weeks to hike the hills of northeast Kansas in mid-December. He hopes to sort his own thoughts and cope with life. He meets a homeschooled boy who reads Plato and Pascal and tells him the road he hikes leads to a small town whose sole tourist attraction is the largest ball of twine in the country. Finding refuge from a sudden blizzard, he meets other plain country folk who have their own unusual stories.
Author Biography
Steven Faulkner grew up in what is now South Sudan in Africa, then moved to the US, where he worked as a carpenter, roofer, grave vault maker, and newspaper and donut deliveryman till he returned to college, earned the necessary degrees, and taught creative writing at Longwood University in Virginia. His first two books were travel books; his last book was a novel called The Image that begins in a cave in Lebanon in the year AD 750.
