A novel in eight stories by award-winning Houston writer, Thomas H. McNeely, Pictures of the Shark moves from its main protagonist Buddy Turner's surreal world of childhood into the wider worlds of sex, drinking, art, and ambition.
What happens when childhood trauma haunts our lives? Set in Houston, Corpus Christi, and Austin, Pictures of the Shark, a novel-in-stories, traces the effects of the emotional bargains made in a dissolving family through the youth and early adulthood of its central character, Buddy Turner. The stories explore trauma and addiction, emotional blackmail and abuse, and moments of redemption and grace.
