Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Tom Franklin captures a perfect snapshot of the charged intensity of the laid back South.

His description of the bullying of the teenage and adult Larry Ott will make you burn with a red streaked sense of shame and humiliation if you have ever been bullied or didn't step up when you saw bullying occur.

For me there was rarely a misstep as this short brutal tale unwinds like a lazy Southern river.

Well done.