Come by the Page & Palette to meet Susie Mattox with her new book, Idiot Farm!

Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, thirteen-year-old Flynn Bolenn’s father goes to war in the summer of ’72 and ends up missing in action. Flynn’s mother, who’s traipsing  across the South entering their sister in beauty pageants, dumps him and his younger brother Willie on the doorstep of their grandmother’s broken-down farm. Meanwhile, a serial killer is murdering young pageant winners in the area. Knowing his  sister may be at risk, Flynn is torn between protecting Willie from the ominous cellar dweller,  and protecting his sister from a potential threat.

Susie Mattox is an Alabama native who developed an interest in ghosts and the macabre spending summers in her grandmother’s home, which was haunted.
”’While most authors seem to start with a character or a plot they want to pursue, I almost always start with a place. An intriguing place. A haunting place. In Idiot Farm, that place was my grandmother’s farm in rural northwest Alabama.”’