Here’s what Kathleen Rooney, author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, had to say about Patricide:
Some people are more like planets in the outsized pull they exert over the others whom they draw like satellites into their orbits. Such is the titular entrepreneurial egomaniac of James Charlesworth’s riveting and rangy debut novel, The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill, a captivating story of money and freedom, family and forgiveness, grand intentions and grave mistakes. Rife with the mayhem attendant upon corruption and greed and alight with the ersatz sparkle of American myth-making and self-absorption, this book offers a hefty and concrete document of the often incalculable costs of capitalist success. With this epic entry into the vast field of feckless and appalling father figures, Charlesworth presents one of the most entertaining and utterly spell-binding arguments against the patriarchy ever written. Wild and haunted, it’s a realistic book, yes, but maybe it’s also a horror story in which the scariest monster of all goes by the alias ‘Dad.’
~Kathleen Rooney, Author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk