David Abis: 5 books

All they needed was a natural disaster and they’d all be living on easy street. As mayor of Sweet Spot, Mississippi, a pathetic collection of dilapidated shacks and underachievers situated smack-dab on the very buckle of the tornado belt, Buck Jones believes it’s his civic duty on behalf of his...

Coming of age on a sugarcane plantation during the 1986 Philippine revolution, young Lisa Salonga, pampered niece of the wealthy Delgado family, lives only for hacienda socials amid the sweet scent of the cane harvest, that is until her idyllic childhood ends when she falls hard for a mere cane worker...

Her daddy was just a small town preacher. But that was before. He ain’t nothin’ now… except dead. What truly happened between 19-year-old Jaime Jo Tremper, Tommy Harris, and her daddy would be the subject of conjecture for years to come. Yet secrets always trump gossip in a small town, and only...

In this bittersweet ill-fated teenage romance, Audrey Spencer meets Zachary Ledbetter, simultaneously fascinating, dangerous, and anything but normal, that missing link between impetuous young boy and psychopath. Coming of age together while confronting issues of obsession, rage, and survival, even...

Just a naive young medical student from Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Benjamin Walker’s cloistered world is thoroughly rocked by his very first patient on the psych ward. Angel McGovern, exotic dancer by trade, is a nymphomaniac genius with two and a half PhD’s. An overwhelmed Ben is kidnapped...