Cuando los habitantes de la pequeña población de Cranston, Texas, se enteran de que uno de los chicos del pueblo ha muerto en Irak se ponen manos a la obra para preparar un funeral como dios manda para su héroe fallecido.Sin embargo, nadie piensa en preguntarle al padre del chico, Joe Morton, una persona solitaria, si ese es el tipo de funeral que desea. Destrozado por el duelo, Joe les sigue la corriente hasta que ya no puede más, y el 4 de julio les dice exactamente lo que piensa.Este acto de independencia trae consigo consecuencias inesperadas y devastadoras. Ni los vecinos, ni mucho menos Joe Morton, están preparados para lo que ocurre a continuación: el cambio y el mundo exterior llegan a Cranston.Finalista del premio Medalla de Oro Pirate's Alley Faulkner, El patriota Joe Morton ilustra el alto precio que conllevan las conjeturas. Michael DeVault was born in Mississippi and grew up in Louisiana and Arkansas, which gave him a strong grounding in the rich musical and literary traditions of the South. He worked as a journalist for more than twelve years, covering politics and the arts for local and regional publications while he also worked on his novels.A two-time finalist for the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Gold Medal (Novel-in-Progress, 2002, Anything But Ordinary; Novella, 2008, The Patriot Joe Morton), Michael's fiction draws on his youth to weave tapestries of intensely believable characters, finely honed plots, and imagery and symbolism inspired by the great southern writers, all wrapped into a package by clean, sharp prose. Michael received an MFA in Creative Writing from Lindenwood University in 2013, and when he's not writing, he teaches college writing and English

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