The Flamer

By Ben Rogers

All boys tinker with fire. Oby Brooks holes up in a backyard shed to experiment with napalm recipes. He has a hand in burning down his own house, twice. He can’t help it: his very DNA seems made of TNT. Meanwhile, amidst the detonations, Oby’s sexuality is up for grabs. Parents, mountain men, chemistry teachers, neighbors, and arson inspectors all try in their own quirky ways to usher Oby into adulthood with his fingers and eyelashes intact. In the end, the question is whether Oby’s nature will be nurtured, or neutered. Oh, and, will he land a Nobel Prize?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ben Rogers was born in 1977 and lives in Reno, Nevada with his wife and two daughters. His debut novel, The Flamer, was originally published by Aqueous Books in 2012. His writing has appeared in a variety of literary publications and earned a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship and a Sierra Arts Foundation grant. He is the lead author of Nanotechnology: Understanding Small Systems (CRC Press), the first-ever comprehensive college textbook on nanotechnology, now in its 3rd edition, and also Nanotechnology: The Whole Story (CRC Press), a general audience book.

Book Details

Title: The Flamer

Author: Ben Rogers

Publication Date: September 2018

ISBN: 978-1-936097-17-3

$14.95

Dist. by Publishers Group West
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