Boy With Wings

Mark Mustian

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Koehler Books
15 March 2025

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fantasy; Historical fiction

What does it mean to be different? When Johnny Cruel is born with strange appendages on his back in the 1930s South, the locals think he's a devil. Determined to protect him, his mother fakes his death, and they flee. Thus begins Johnny's yearslong struggle to find a place he belongs. From a turpentine camp of former slaves to a freak show run by a dwarf who calls herself Tiny Tot and on to the Florida capitol building, Johnny finds himself working alongside other outcasts, struggling to answer the question of his existence. Is he a horror, a wonder, or an angel? Should he hide himself to live his life? Following Johnny's journey through love, betrayal, heartbreak, and several murders, Boy With Wings is a story of the sacrifices and freedom inherent in making one's own special way-and of love and the miracles that give our lives meaning.

By: Mark Mustian
Imprint: Koehler Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 621g
ISBN: 9798888244296
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 15 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Mustian is the author of the novel The Gendarme, an international bestseller shortlisted for the Saroyan International Award for Writing and published in ten languages. He's the founder of the Word of South Festival of Literature and Music in Tallahassee, Florida, and lives in Florida and Michigan.

Reviews for Boy With Wings

""In this propulsive tale of the magic lurking inside our mortality, Mark Mustian has conjured a surreal hero. Here is a translucent rendering of boyhood and aberration, of the fault lines of race and the frailty of religion. In sentences that are equally primal and poetic, Mustian transports us through the shacks, camps, circuses, and back alleys of the Depression-era South, asking a still-resonant question: What's the price of belonging in a society that's already broken?""-Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Everlasting