Divining Rod

After the deaths of his parents, Simon Bell returns to his hometown of Sherwood, Alabama, hoping for a simple, quiet existence.

But when he meets Delia Holladay on one hot, unmoving summer day, latent needs and desires are awakened.

Delia is young, beautiful, and married. As their emotions deepen, the affair slips beyond their control, building to a final reckoning that will leave no one untouched.

Divining Rod tells a richly layered tale of adultery, love, and murder, as it follows the arc of one fateful romance to its inevitable and heartbreaking conclusion.

Author: Michael Knight
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 08/03/2010
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.36h x 5.54w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780802144973

About the Author
Michael Knight's Divining Rod won the Fellowship of Southern Writers New Writing Award and the Dictionary of Literary Biography's Best First Novel Award. Knight is also the author of the novel, The Typist; two collections of short fiction, Dogfight: And Other Stories and Goodnight, Nobody; and a collection of novellas, The Holiday Season. His fiction has appeared in publications such as Esquire,  The New Yorker, and Oxford American. He teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee.