The Fish Hook — the debut novel

Perrie Keith has lived a (mostly) charmed life in the small town of Kleinville, Pennsylvania, but everything changes when a mysterious malaise descends upon the village. As people find themselves infected with a mental fog that renders them nearly incapable of speech or movement, and increasingly draconian government regulations encourage good citizens to “limit human exposure,” Kleinville transforms into a ghost town. Realizing that she must now re-evaluate her entire life—her friends, her faith, and her future—Perrie embarks on a journey with her close companion Sterling to salvage the remnants of their prior existence, before the air was thickened with a paralyzing smog, before technology was fashioned to replace human connection, and before children were medicated to dull their emotions. Through the troubled fairytale of Perrie’s childhood and adolescence, including her fading relationship with her friend Madison; the rebellion, romance, and ruin of Perrie’s mother, Ruby; Sterling’s spiritual quest and his great-aunt Estrella’s recollections of her free-spirited teenage days, Veronica Maureen calls into question the creeping lifelessness of the modern world in The Fish Hook.

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