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Roosevelt, Michigan is an inversion of The Great Gatsby for the 21st century. When Buddy Henshaw returns home to Michigan a decade after faking his death, he hopes to recapture his first love Lily. Instead, he founds an artists' colony in a desolate downtown and parties his way into a series of murders. Echoing the language of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roosevelt, Michigan is a love letter to "house shows" and the extraordinary relationships that support folk and roots music. From a touching affair to a mentorship that goes violently wrong, Brock takes readers to the kind of unforgettable night where no one is sure what's in the punch, but everyone is enjoying the journey - until people start to die.

"Brock's lyrical and devastating novel tours the dangerous and delightful territory between art and mental illness, between childhood and what comes after." - Jeffrey Rotter, New York Times Journalist and Author of The Unknown KnownsDylan James Brock's Dry World is about how close love can be to a psychosis. In this narrative told by a split mind, two love stories about one psychotic narrator are told simultaneously. The first plot, set in 2003, is at the end of a college career and the second plot, set in 2005, is at the beginning of a literary one. Each spirals into violence through the recklessness characterizing the severe mental illness. What results is a patient and realistic Bildungsroman about how to learn through love from madness.