Brown Bottle: A Novel

Fiction. Appalachian Literature. Wade "Brown Bottle" Taylor is an alcoholic uncle trying to protect his nephew Nick from the hardness of their region, Eastern Kentucky, and the world in general. To end Nick's involvement with drugs and drug dealers in the area, Brown must first save himself, overcoming a lifetime spent convinced he is unworthy. BROWN BOTTLE's journey is one of selflessness and love, redemption and sacrifice, if only for a time... "With striking authenticity, Compton delivers a story that is at once tender and a punch straight to the gut. BROWN BOTTLE is honest, heartbreaking and echoing with desperation rendered in precise, razor-sharp prose. Sheldon Lee Compton writes with a reckoning force."--Steph Post, author of A Tree Born Crooked

"Sheldon Lee Compton is a hillbilly Bukowski, one of the grittiest writers to come down the pike since Larry Brown, and BROWN BOTTLE is his best work yet."--Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time