Advanced Praise for Julian Berengaut
Here is a revenge tale of extraordinary strategy and thoughtfulness. In The Estate of Wormwood & Honey, the reader enters a real world generations and nations removed—my great-grandmother's "Old Russia." Though the journey of the justice-seeking hero to take and keep the catbird's seat on his own bitter past leads through some excruciatingly familiar places in the human heart, in the end, this broad-spreading self-understanding is the vehicle to hope.
—Zofia Burr, Dean, George Mason University
It's a funny experience, reading The Estate of Wormwood & Honey. You watch as Berengaut traces out the intricate power plays and sly maneuverings among petty bureaucrats, failed nobles, and a secretly returning charismatic coung in a provincial, 19th century Russian town and you wonder: how'd he do that? What power of the brain lets a 21st century man in America render something so foreign, so odd to his own way of life, so well? Of course, we know that power—imagination—but still it's a strange and thrilling thing. Enter this, a world delicately drawn and charming.
—Joseph Young, author of Easter Rabbit and NameIf you are interested in receiving a review copy, please contact goodbookdevelopers@gmail.com. Thanks!