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Veering Straight
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE ROAD RUNS STRAIGHT. THE MIND DOES NOT.
Paul was once the bass player for the Whiskeyhounds, a band forged in fierce friendship, hard living, and the belief that the right song could make them immortal.
Years later, far from the stage and the life he expected, a chance to play again draws him back toward music. With little more than his bass, his appetites, and a stubborn faith in what the band once was, Paul sets out through cheap rooms, late-night bars, old loyalties, and dangerous new attachments. Each mile offers another version of the future, while the past keeps changing key behind him.
Raw, darkly funny, erotic, and dreamlike, Veering Straight is a psychological literary novel about music, friendship, hunger, grief, and the stories we follow when the road ahead will not hold still.
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