Skinny Annie Blues

Wiley Moss has always given fate the benefit of the doubt. Even when fate sends his daddy crashing head-first into the aquarium in his Galveston home. Even when fate calls long distance warning Wiley to stay away from Daddy Moss's funeral--and stay the hell out of Texas where...
...the scent of foul play is as rank as Daddy's dead fish...betrayal is as commonplace as chicken fried steak...everybody is hiding something and no one can be counted on for a damned thing. Except maybe murder.

Picture a cross between Tom Robbins and Larry McMurtry on a weekend bender and you've got Neal Barrett, Jr., one of the most original storytellers in America. He proves it once again in this masterpiece of comic menace.