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This debut novel by William Buddy Carter chronicles a son's search across the South for his terminally ill father.
A good ol' boy goes looking for his pa in this occasionally promising but repetitious debut. Summoned to the deathbed of his autocratic father, U.S. Senator Austin Belew, prodigal youngest son Blue Belew arrives in plenty of time to suffer another blast of the patriarch's rejection. Soon afterward, the old curmudgeon splits from the hospital to join up with Savin' Sam, a former TV mobile-home pitchman who is running Cancer Casualties for Christ, a scam to collect the insurance of his terminally ill followers. Fearing the loss of the family fortune, Blue's mother and siblings promptly dispatch him to rescue the bamboozled old tyrant, and the chain-smoking, beer-guzzling hero embarks on a star-crossed odyssey to mend matters with disagreeable old dad. The novel then meanders into a fatuous episode featuring a trio of backwoods stereotypes who contribute little to the plot. Although Carter (son of Billy, nephew of President Jimmy) now and then demonstrates a flair for dialogue, anecdote and description, this talent is overshadowed by his parade of Southern-fried clichs. Author tour. (May)
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Larry Hurst
reviewed Search for Savin' Sam on March 09, 2013
Search for Savin' Sam
"I understand my soul is like a piece of God implanted in me, and while it's the same substance as God, it's much more cloudy because it's so hard to be human." --I'm not sure what I could write that would better entice you to read Steinke's Milk than that quotation from the brief novel. But I will add a warning of sorts: Milk, despite its title, does not offer a big-eyed, happy approach to religion. When I assigned this book as a reading several years ago, one student told me she threw it against her dorm room wall.
Milk, it strikes me, approaches religions with the same intensity that Flannery O'Connor did in her short stories and novels. That should be warning enough. It strikes me that Ms. Steinke's novel and approach to religion is one of longing. Of longing in the persistent face of absence, and this absence comes not only from a non-answering God, but from mis-communicating people interacting with/against one another.
A fine, fast read--a one-nighter--that will challenge your spirituality.
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