About Hungry Rats
Praise for Hungry Rats
Hungry Rats is an emotional and aesthetic tour de force about deep matters of the human heart. Author Connor Coyne shows why the novel is still the most important medium to write about what matters in a manner that matters.
- Jeffery Renard Allen, author of Rails Under My Back and Stellar Places
Connor Coyne has created a richly imagined world full of surprises for his strange and wonderful characters. This work is wickedly funny and sinfully dark. I found myself both delighted and repulsed, often at the same time!
- Arlene Malinowski, playwright and performer
author of What Does the Sun Sound Like? and Aiming for Sainthood
In confident, purposeful, evocative prose, Connor Coyne places you in a family where no one is watching out for you, and you had better watch your back.
- Leila Sales, author of Mostly Good Girls
Hungry Rats
"Rat Man, you out there?" you asked. He didn't answer.
The Rat Man, a serial killer, is on the loose in Flint, Michigan, and nobody can stop him. Except you, Meredith Malady, a high-school girl with a dysfunctional family and a score to settle. Running away from home is the first step, but where will you stay? How will you get by? And what will you do when you meet the Rat Man face to face?
"Told in visceral second-person, Hungry Rats is as wild as it is dark, and as propulsive as it is weird. Connor Coyne's debut is pure Midwestern Gothic and it strips the glamour from teen noir, dropping readers into a world that is savage, brutal, but at the end of the day, poetically beautiful."
