It’s been a big week already for Hungry Rats, with two of our biggest events in the last six months breaking over two days.
First, the book has been the subject of front-page Sunday coverage for the Flint Journal, Genesee County’s main newspaper with a readership of almost 230,000. It’s hard to overstate how significant this is for the future of the novel, although I would happily have written the book for greater obscurity without overhanging violence and tragedy. You can read the whole piece here: Flint native wrote novel before serial stabbings with eerie coincidences related to Abuelazam case.
“Coyne, who has a master’s degree in creative writing, crafted a novel sparked by that image about a teenage girl from a dysfunctional family who runs away from home in pursuit of the serial killer dubbed “The Rat Man.””
Second, Hungry Rats has been reviewed for the first issue of the Cleveland Review, and it was a juicy review at that. You can read it in its entirety here: Hungry Rats by Connor Coyne.
“Hungry Rats is a murder mystery that imparts not only the eerie feeling that the reader is being watched — or is on trial for a crime she may or may not have committed — but also suggests that she is trapped in an increasingly macabre Choose Your Own Adventure.”
I don’t know if the rest of the week can possibly live up to the excitement of the first two days. Although with my reading coming up at Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago this Saturday, I’m going to give it my best shot!
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Photo of the Flint Journal building provided by The Flint Journal.
Cover of the Cleveland Review provided by The Cleveland Review.