Double Feature

In spring 2002, Sam Dolan is bringing his artistic vision to life: a low-budget, serious film about soul-searching twentysomethings at a small liberal arts college. Sam's cinematic legacy includes his garrulous father, Booth, a B-movie actor who left Sam's mother, Allie, for one of his unstable mistresses. Once Sam's film experiment concludes unexpectedly, the narrative flashes back and forth from his childhood with often-absent Booth to his post-auteur stint as a wedding videographer. Throw in a satyr, a precocious stepsister, and a blogger roommate, and the stage is set for a tender, hilarious first novel from short-fiction writer and educator King (We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories) that deftly follows the twisted path of family relationships, legacies, and the baggage we all deal with.