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From Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying – and disturbingly funny – new novel. It is 1917, in that sliver of borderland that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett is dead, and he leaves behind his three sons to eke out a hardscrabble life of their own: Cane (the eldest, handsome, intelligent), Cob (short, heavyset, a bit slow), and Chimney (the youngest, thin, ill-tempered). The brothers set out on horseback to pillage their way to wealth and infamy, inspired by a lurid dime-store novel that only one of them can read. But the heaven they’ve imagined may be worse than the hell they sought to escape.