Pope’s second novel after Masque (2016) charts the epic struggles of the very hungry and very lost Joy-Marie after the loss of the three people who hold her world together. If you have the stomach for it, hold onto your hat, preferably one without feathers, and prepare for a wild ride through a seesaw world of madness, magic, mayhem and myth as good, evil and a platoon of coyotes converge for a battle to the death.īethany W. And I do the same: reader, beware! Enter this world only if you are ready to plummet into a nightmare Southern Gothic universe, set in the slime and ooze of the Florida swamplands at the turn from 19 th to 20 th century. With these words in the prologue to The Hungry and the Lost, the unnamed narrator is giving us fair warning. And, if you are strong enough to follow, you shall feel its raging pulse. There is life here, of a kind, a half-life at least. Cover The Hungry & The Lost by Bethany W Pope.
