Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian
street racing with academic intrigue all haunted by a hungry ghost. Andrew and Eddie did
everything together best friends bonded more deeply than brothers until Eddie left Andrew
behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later only days before Andrew
was to join him in Nashville Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew a horrible
inheritance: a roommate he doesn't know friends he never asked for and a gruesome phantom
that hungers for him. As Andrew searches for the truth of Eddie's death he uncovers the lies
and secrets left behind by the person he trusted most discovering a family history soaked in
blood and death. Whirling between the backstabbing academic world where Eddie spent his days
and the circle of hot boys fast cars and hard drugs that ruled Eddie's nights the walls
Andrew has built against the world begin to crumble. And there is something awful lurking
waiting for those walls to fall.
