{"id":11196,"date":"2018-01-08T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=11196"},"modified":"2018-01-07T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T04:04:00","slug":"review-spungunion-john-boden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-spungunion-john-boden\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Spungunion by John Boden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11197\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-spungunion-john-boden\/spungunionfinalfront_original\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpungunionFINALFRONT_original.jpg?fit=853%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"853,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SpungunionFINALFRONT_original\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpungunionFINALFRONT_original.jpg?fit=682%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11197\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpungunionFINALFRONT_original.jpg?resize=233%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpungunionFINALFRONT_original.jpg?resize=233%2C350&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpungunionFINALFRONT_original.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpungunionFINALFRONT_original.jpg?resize=682%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpungunionFINALFRONT_original.jpg?w=853&amp;ssl=1 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 85vw, 233px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dynatox.storenvy.com\/products\/20076764-spungunion-by-john-boden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Spungunion\u00a0<\/em>by John Boden<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Dynatox Ministries (2017)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>123 pages; $12.99 paperback; $3.99 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadLutzke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chad Lutzke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reality is this: \u00a0Life is just a balloon floating dangerously in a roomful of lit cigarettes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lonely truck driver sets out on a desperate course to find the one who killed his wife. A path that leads to mingling with the oddball, the grotesque, and the surreal in this weird fiction trucker tale by an author who is certainly no stranger to offering heartbreaking stories, of which <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spungunion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is above par.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8230;the other voice continued, each word dipped in honey and drain water, sweet and vile at the same time. Daddy long legs scurried over each syllable.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boden\u2019s use of tragically poetic prose takes the reader on a gritty and somber&#8212;yet somehow romantic&#8212;journey as widower Deke Larch sets out to right the wrongs while the narrative sets the tone with passages like:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTime was just something that shambled and dragged on behind him like so much mummy bandage.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bleak indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deke\u2019s crusade is heart-wrenching and hard to watch, and you\u2019re thankful the entire time that you\u2019re only a bystander and not the bereaving victim. His day-to-day is spent reflecting on the loss of his wife and reveling in the memory of her, even if that means sleeping in the blood-stained mattress she bled out on, until given the opportunity to find the answers he&#8217;s looking for from a co-worker who holds the voodoo-esque, shamanistic means to do so should Deke dare to pursue them. And he does. In Deke\u2019s own words:\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI know when I find out who did it, the world will have to split in two to hold all the blood that\u2019s coming. All the rage.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spungunion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was one of the best books I read in 2017, and I\u2019ve read enough Boden now to be excited about what&#8217;s coming next. For fans of Lansdale and weird fiction that never strays into bizarro and not too weird to alienate you. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spungunion\u00a0by John Boden Dynatox Ministries (2017) 123 pages; $12.99 paperback; $3.99 e-book Reviewed by\u00a0Chad Lutzke The reality is this: \u00a0Life is just a balloon floating dangerously in a roomful of lit cigarettes. A lonely truck driver sets out on a desperate course to find the one who killed his wife. 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