Bloomland

Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novel Award

Winner of the 2018 Dzanc

Prize for Fiction

An Indies Introduce Pick

A Kirkus Best Books of 2019

selection



Spanning two decades, Bloomland examines the social roots and

community fallout of a shooting at a fictional southern university. As

the narrative moves between the lives of a disillusioned student, a

grieving professor, and the shooter himself, the psyches and stories of

each character blend and intersect, ultimately asking us to rethink

American myths of selfhood, grief, and violence as a redemptive act.



Profound and deeply nuanced, Bloomland is a dazzling debut that walks in step with the novels of Garth Greenwell, Rachel Kushner, and Louise Erdrich.