A boy, his fading father, and a skeleton raccoon that keeps finding him, no matter where he goes.
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read moreNecessary Cuts follows a boy growing up in the rural South. On a fish hatchery. In a farmhouse full of snakes. Across a series of small towns where nothing quite fits. His father collects animal bones and is slowly fading away. His mother holds everything together until she can't. And a skeleton raccoon finds him in the dark, carrying gifts no one asked for.
It's a book about the strange things that find you when the real ones won't stay. About what it costs to survive.
Necessary Cuts is the winner of the 2026 Miami University Press Novella Prize and will be published by Miami University Press.
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