THE DEADWOOD ENCORE

Frank Whelan, the seventh son of a seventh son, who by now should have inherited his father’s legendary healing power, still hasn’t managed to graduate beyond small-time skin afflictions. He already feels adrift when his twin, Bernie, reveals a life-changing decision that calls into question everything Frank thought he knew about his place in the family. And then he discovers his father had been keeping secrets of his own. And then he discovers his father had been keeping secrets of his own. And so Frank turns to an unlikely source for guidance and finds himself on a quest for answers. from this world, and the next. A boundlessly inventive novel about the past's hold over the present, set in an Irish community alive with old magic and extraordinary possibility.