Nothing That Is Ours by D.J. Palladino

On a grey iciness day in 1958, the physique of a guy washes up on Santa Barbara's breakwater. He has wounds very like these of the crucified Christ. Trevor Westin, a tender author with deep family members connections to town. sees homicide the place the neighborhood press and powers that be see just a easy case of drowning. Trevor is going on a perilous look for solutions. alongside the way in which approach he'll move paths with beatniks, seashore bums, Aldous Huxley, Dennis Hopper, and brokers from the CIA. he'll even be brought to the courageous new global of hallucinogenic medicinal drugs. in the meantime, off the coast of Santa Barbara, on the backside of the sea . . . "In his visionary and entirely unique debut, D.J. Palladino exhibits us how the California of Raymond Chandler become the land of Huxley and Pynchon and blew the brain (while reworking the attention) of the area as an entire. this can be a light-filled, haunting, fullyyt crucial paintings whose afterglow grows gradually progressively more intense."—Pico Iyer, writer of "Video Nights in Kathmandu" and "The woman and the Monk." "Vivid, wealthy, and poignant, 'Nothing that's Ours' is stuffed with heartbreak and perception, a noirish glimpse into the Santa Barbara of the fifties. Unforgettable."—Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning writer of "China Lake" and "The reminiscence Collector." "An outstanding debut novel that is a true page-turner. Gripping and atmospheric: half noir, half secret, all engrossing. it is a interesting learn that leaves you short of more."—Tab Hunter, actor in "Damn Yankees," "The excitement of His Company," and "Ride the Wild Surf." "Move apart Carey McWilliams and Nathanael West. D.J. Palladino fuses luridly scrumptious information of net-revisionist California historical past with the narrative move one may possibly anticipate if Raymond Chandler ever ran into Thomas Pynchon at a drunken occasion. within the strategy, Palladino manages to save lots of Santa Barbara from the weight of its obviousness, giving readers a unprecedented glimpse of the town—during the overdue 1950s—when it used to be simply changing into what it will definitely could be."—Nick Welsh, senior information editor, Santa Barbara Independent.