Things in Brown Paper - Paperback

by Steven Streisguth (Illustrator), Donovan Irven (Author)

One man's death leads his brother into the labyrinth of memory. A piece of land holds the key. A story of family, of broken ties and longstanding grudges, Things in Brown Paper weaves a tale across time that is at once a mystery and a biography of a forgotten era. As Winston pieces together the story of a land steeped in legend, he begins to uncover the bonds that are wrought from blood, and stronger than the iron it carries. Recounting a long history of labor, moonshine, and murder, Irven's second novel is a Southern Gothic about the heights of love and the depths of depravity unfolding over three generations.

Author Biography

Donovan Irven was born in Cumberland, Maryland, a small working class town in the Appalachians. He is currently enrolled in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Philosophy and Literature at Purdue University; he studied philosophy, history, and creative writing at Frostburg State University, and received his Master's Degree in Philosophy from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. An APPA Certified Philosophical Counselor, Irven resides in West Lafayette, Indiana where he writes and practices philosophy. You can follow him on Twitter @DonovanIrven, and contact him through Facebook, or his blog, In the Time of Ethics [http: //inthetimeofethics.blogspot.com/]. Things in Brown Paper is Irven's second novel