This tale of two Iowa brothers trying to escape the long shadow of
their notorious father is "an almost impossible book to put down" (The
Plain Dealer).
This gripping novel tells the tale of the Easter family of Ontarion,
Iowa. Ansel Easter was a favored minister until he rescued a grotesque
creature from a carnival sideshow. His sons, C and Sam, suffer in the
shadow of their outcast father until his violent death. C and Sam leave
the home their father built for a new beginning, and find fortune
building a lucrative business called the Associates -- but when a rash
of deaths has the townspeople looking at C and Sam as suspects, they
find their father's legacy reaches further than they expect.
Taut, dark, and engrossing, The Easter House is a brilliant work of
fiction by the acclaimed author of Driftless and Jewelweed.
"David Rhodes's writing is smooth and wry, combining Richard Russo's
genius for the details of small-town thinking and Flannery O'Connor's
flair for shading things toward the weird side of normal." --Mpls.St.
Paul Magazine