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View the movie truck at DirtyPartsoftheBible.com The Dirty Areas of the Bible is a funny novel set throughout the Great Depression---a rollicking account of love and alcohol, preachers and hookers, trains and prize, certain to attract enthusiasts of Water for Tigers, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Mark Twain, and Johnny Cash.Semifinalist for the Amazon Development Novel Honor  "As the name indicates a raunchy study, this rich and soulful novel is really a fairly well-performed bildungsroman [coming-of-age account] steeped in wanderlust and whimsy that at times evokes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and at others a tamer On the highway. The tale starts in 1936 as 19-year-old Tobias is thumbing his method from Remus, Mich., to his dad's farm in Glen Rose, Tex., to locate a hidden case of cash, after his father, a Baptist pastor, drunkenly slams his car in to the chapel and is eliminated from the parsonage. The writer does a great job for making well-charted area (driving the rails; scavenged fire dinners underneath the stars) appear fresh and lively. Thoughts of bible, Southern spirituals, and folk ballads give taste and framework for the wording.