The Hundred-Year Flood
by Matthew Salesses
In the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. This beautiful and dreamlike story follows Tee, a twenty-two-year-old Korean-American, as he escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncle’s suicide and the aftermath of 9/11. His life intertwines with Pavel, a painter famous for revolution; Katka, his equally alluring wife; and Pavel's partner—a giant of a man with an American name. As the flood slowly makes its way into the old city, Tee contemplates his own place in life as both mixed and adopted and as an American in a strange land full of heroes, myths, and ghosts. In the tradition of Native Speaker and The Family Fang, the Good Men Project’s Matthew Salesses weaves together the tangled threads of identity, love, growing up, and relationships in his stunning first novel, The Hundred-Year Flood.
City of Echoes
by Robert Ellis
On Detective Matt
Jones’s first night working Homicide in LA, he’s called to investigate a
particularly violent murder case: a man has been gunned down in a
parking lot off Hollywood Boulevard, his bullet-riddled body immediately
pegged as the work of a serial robber who has been haunting the Strip
for months. Driven by the grisliness of the killing, Jones and his
hot-tempered partner, Denny Cabrera, jump headfirst into the
investigation. But as Jones uncovers evidence that links the crime to a
brutal, ritualized murder that occurred eighteen months prior, he begins
to suspect that there’s more going on beneath the surface. When Jones
discovers shocking, deep-seated corruption; a high-level cover-up; and
his own personal ties to the rising body count, he’s no longer sure he
can trust anyone, even himself.
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