Bomb Island

Part coming-of-age summer romance, part thriller,Bomb Islandis a funny and fast-paced Southern novel exploring subculture communities, survival, and found family set on an island near an unexploded atomic bomb.Summer is in full swing on Bomb Island, Georgia. Fifteen-year-old Fish lives in a commune on the three-mile stretch of sand with his chosen family: their mother-sage Whistle and her white tiger, Sugar, a young man named Reef, and an old man named Nutzo, who is still missing. Fish and Whistle spend the days leading tours in their glass bottom boat out to the barrier islands namesake, an unexploded atomic bomb.This is the summer when Fish meets Celia, the tattooed daughter of a troublesome local charter fisherman bent on exposing Whistles communeand their illegal tiger. When a party at her dads place goes sour, Fish brings Celia back to Bomb Island in the hope that shell stay there with him. But they still cant find Nutzo, the tigers behavior has become increasingly erratic, and everyones summer is about to take a strange, dark turn.Narrated by an ensemble cast of uniquely independent outsiders who have chosen counter-culture lives informed by their desires and past traumas,Bomb Islandtakes a rollicking journey through the weirds and wilds of Coastal Georgia. Stephen Hundley has crafted a spirited, zany novel with a big heart that examines the strength it takes to live freely and without shame.