Huck Finn meets Holden Caufield in a wickedly funny first novel about what happens when things go awry in the heartland ... really awry ...
In a wonderfully funny debut that stars the newest incarnation of a lineage stretching from Huck Finn to Holden Caufield, OUR NUN gives fresh voice to the great tradition of the American pastoral ... but the classic idyll goes awry when young Boyd Robison and his friends find a body in the local churchyard.
From then on Boyd and his buddies are forced to take a closer look at the odd characters –- and sudden suspects –- of their close-knit community. That is, when they're not trying to figure out how to handle a new-found interest in girls, deal with fractious farm animals, play ball and save as much time as possible for goofing off.
Thanks to author Laughner's gift for understatement and his delicious dry wit, what could be a dark tale becomes an absorbing, charming, and wickedly funny tale about growing up in America.
In a wonderfully funny debut that stars the newest incarnation of a lineage stretching from Huck Finn to Holden Caufield, OUR NUN gives fresh voice to the great tradition of the American pastoral ... but the classic idyll goes awry when young Boyd Robison and his friends find a body in the local churchyard.
From then on Boyd and his buddies are forced to take a closer look at the odd characters –- and sudden suspects –- of their close-knit community. That is, when they're not trying to figure out how to handle a new-found interest in girls, deal with fractious farm animals, play ball and save as much time as possible for goofing off.
Thanks to author Laughner's gift for understatement and his delicious dry wit, what could be a dark tale becomes an absorbing, charming, and wickedly funny tale about growing up in America.
