The Summer That Melted Everything A Novel
The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel is a literary novel published by St. Martin’s Publishing Group on July 3, 2017. This reprint edition spans 320 pages and is presented in English. The story unfolds in the summer of 1984 in Breathed, Ohio, where a heat wave coincides with the arrival of a thirteen-year-old boy named Sal, who claims to be the devil. As he is taken in by the Bliss family, tensions rise in the town, leading to a series of strange events that challenge the community’s perception of good and evil.
Readers will find a narrative that explores themes of family life and the complexities of small-town dynamics. As the temperature soars, the townspeople’s reactions to Sal’s presence reveal deep-seated fears and prejudices, ultimately culminating in a crisis that alters the fabric of their lives. This novel delves into the intersection of reality and parable, inviting reflection on the nature of humanity amidst extraordinary circumstances.
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The devil comes to Ohio in Tiffany McDaniel’s breathtaking and heartbreaking literary debut novel, The Summer That Melted Everything.
*Winner of The Guardian‘s 2016 “Not the Booker” Prize and the Ohioana Readers’ Choice Award
*Goodreads Choice Award nominee for “Best Fiction” and “Best Debut”
“A wonderfully original, profoundly unsettling, deeply moving novel that delivers both the shock of fully realized reality and the deep resonance of parable…A remarkable debut.”
—Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
“A haunting Appalachian Gothic novel that calls into question the nature of good and evil.” —Akron Beacon Journal
Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil.
Sal seems to appear out of nowhere – a bruised and tattered thirteen-year-old boy claiming to be the devil himself answering an invitation. Fielding Bliss, the son of a local prosecutor, brings him home where he’s welcomed into the Bliss family, assuming he’s a runaway from a nearby farm town.
When word spreads that the devil has come to Breathed, not everyone is happy to welcome this self-proclaimed fallen angel. Murmurs follow him and tensions rise, along with the temperature as an unbearable heat wave rolls into town right along with him. As strange accidents start to occur, riled by the feverish heat, some in the town start to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be. While the Bliss family wrestle with their own personal demons, a fanatic drives the town to the brink of a catastrophe that will change this sleepy Ohio backwater forever.
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