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The author disavows this book in its entirety, and in fact, reproves it. The unsuspecting reader, then, is enjoined to treat it as a mere curiosity, and to hold it in no greater esteem than may be rightfully assigned to any misguided work of Gnosticism. Mea Culpa

Orchard Park and Other Works — A Novel by Tom Fahy

Russell Huggins has died an indigent’s death but left behind a formidable literary estate. Tom Shaw has been enlisted by The University of Maryland’s Urban Archaeology Department to decipher and distill, catalog and compile, Huggins’ vast collection of single-spaced, handwritten journals and ledgers littering the second floor of Button House, a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Orchard Park, a Baltimore suburb. Is it but a case of riotous hypergraphia or does the University’s adamancy suggest something else? Orchard Park tells the tale of one man’s effort to scratch at the canvas; to peel away life’s protective layers; to decrypt meaning from the cultural artifacts by which he is surrounded — to achieve grace through creation and redemption through imagination.