The stories in Barker Ten Mile string together the boyhood adventures of a certain Chris Musselwhite – stories he swears are true, and not the least bit stretched. Perhaps we can give him the benefit of the doubt as he sagely never cast himself the hero.
How else could we stand for such extravagant, fantastical accounts of Christmas in July, of a glass eye popped out for any paying school boy, of a place you can no longer find on the map? How else could we believe the wonder and danger and skin-of-your-teeth luck he knew on a green patch of earth, on the edge of the world?
Read to find out.
"I seriously love this...It's like Stand By Me but better."
– Nancy Snyderman, Physician, Journalist, Entrepreneur
I am in the middle of reading Barker Ten Mile. I love it! The writing is great—the author’s voice really comes through. It feels as though I am right there.
Debby Seabrooke, writer, puppeteer, creative writing instructor
“These stories from the author’s boyhood years growing up on a family farm "down East" feel like fiction, not because they are fantastical -- though they are full of adventure and wonder -- but because they pull you into that world from the first line."
-Quinn Dalton, author of Midnight Bowling and creative writing instructor, UNC Greensboro