Flatback Sally Country -- Rachel Custer, Paperback Dorothy Adams But sometimes we need a

But sometimes we need a little help

Vincent Van Gogh

Trapped in a post-apocalyptic environment where the only way to survive is to compete in a series of increasingly deadly games

She was the class clown

Black Stone Cherry

Flatback Sally Country -- Rachel Custer, Paperback Dorothy Adams But sometimes we need aRachel Custer's Flatback Sally Country is hard hitting and harrowing and almost hypnotically beautiful in its deft singing of the stories of America's vast middle, of the flyover land pinned beneath the derision of coastal elites. Personas like Tommy Two Fingers, Old Maid, and Flatback Sally herself tell us of lives "lived alone behind the turned back of the world," nursing "the desperate shame of broken teeth, of ugliness that can't afford disguise."