THE CHARLATAN'S BOY
15th Anniversary Edition
"I only know one man who might be able to tell me where I come from, and that man is a liar and a fraud."
As far back as he can remember, young Grady has tramped from village to village in the company of a huckster named Floyd. The pair make a scant living by perpetrating hoaxes on the good citizens of the Corenwald frontier-all at Grady's expense. After all, Floyd never gave a moment's consideration to Grady's feelings about being exhibited as "The Ugliest Boy in the World."
But when Floyd stages an elaborate plot to revive Corenwalders' belief in mythical swamp-dwellers known as the feechiefolk, he overshoots the mark: what starts as "The Great Feechie Scare" quickly becomes a widespread panic that threatens the whole countryside. Yet amid all the chaos, Grady discovers a truth that has evaded him all his life--and it will change his path forever.
New Illustrations by Joe Hox
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jonathan Rogers
Jonathan Rogers doesn’t remember one thing about the day he was born. He has been given to believe, however, that it happened in Warner Robins, Georgia. He received an undergraduate degree from Furman University and holds a PhD in seventeenth-century English literature from Vanderbilt University. Jonathan is also a lifelong devotee of the vernacular storytelling traditions of the American South, which give shape to his fiction. He is the author of the popular Wilderking Trilogy, now available in 20th Anniversary hardcover editions. Jonathan’s other books include The Charlatan’s Boy, Saint Patrick, The World According to Narnia, and The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O’Connor. When he is not writing his own stories, Jonathan is shepherding the stories of others as the host of The Habit—a podcast and an online hub for writers at TheHabit.co. Jonathan Rogers has spent most of his adult life in Nashville, Tennessee, where he and his wife Lou Alice have raised a houseful of robustious children.
