Broke Heart Blues: A Novel

Let’s all go back to high school and live in that four-year soap opera focusing on cool kids and their stories. This story takes place in the small town of Willowsville, a placid community of families sending their adolescents off to typical high schools with prototypical cliques. Into this town drives eleven year old John Reddy Heart in a salmon colored Cadillac. This being a law-abiding town, he is immediately pulled over by a small-town police officer who is out of his league. For there, in the passenger’s seat, is John’s mother in all her blonde glory. Dahlia Magdalena Heart has come to town to inherit the hillside home and estate bequeathed to her in Las Vegas by a rich elderly gentleman who is suddenly deceased. Dahlia wears all white and transfixes the town, disturbing the sexual latency of the town’s good fathers. In a similar fashion, John Reddy Heart becomes the fixation and heartthrob of all teenage girls and their mothers. Strangely, such is his charisma that all the boys want to be his friend, and all the girls simply adore and stalk him. Given murder, prison, and adult life, what will their thirtieth reunion bring?