Muddled Cherries John Burgoyne For more from Anthony Ryan

For more from Anthony Ryan

"At once intimate and literally operatic

But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways

each one featuring a loving affirmation and a hand-drawn illustration of the little frog

Muddled Cherries John Burgoyne For more from Anthony RyanIt's the spring of 2009 in Deer Valley, Wisconsin, and with the crack of a screen door, twenty year old Emily Schmidt's life is about to change. Born and raised and still living in The Honky Tonk, her dad's flagging tavern, Emily's tired of the patrons' same old conversations, the jukebox's same old sad songs, and her dad's same old drunken tirades. Loyal, but lonely and struggling with an unsettling incident with one of the regulars, she's secretly