Smith Henderson's Novel Fourth of July Creek

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 30, 2014

PEN prize-winning writer Smith Henderson discusses his new novel,  Fourth of July Creek. After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral 11-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah, a paranoid survivalist waiting for the coming End Times.

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