"In this richly textured debut, John Englehardt explores how the origin and aftermath of a mass shooting impacts the lives of three characters: a disillusioned student, a grieving professor, and a young man whose valuation of fear and disconnection funnels him into the role of the aggressor. As the community wrestles with the fallout, Bloomland interrogates social and cultural dysfunction in a nation where mass violence has become all too familiar."--Provided...

Account of how an average "Joe" becomes a murderer. An odd friendship grows between a businessman and a blue-collar welder as they search for the businessman's runaway daughter. They are thrust into the midst of the counter-culture, a shocking and humiliating experience that ends in senseless acts of violence.

On a highway, goons draw alongside a car and open fire on a man and his two daughters, killing one of the girls. The novel offers seven scenarios. In one, the man seeks revenge, in another he turns to religion, in a third he gives his daughters a pep talk, just before they hit the road, on the best way to protect oneself. By the author of Frog.