ANCHOR by Terrance Wedin

A young man arrives in recession-era Austin broke and desperate, taking any work he can find to survive. Through bars and restaurants, cash, drugs, and desire become interchangeable currencies.

“A taut and biting book. Wedin distills his narrator’s lapses and relapses in a changing city with great restraint and intensity without ever surrendering to the pat tropes of recovery and rehabilitation. The wounds of abuse are offset with enough longing and nostalgia to make it all burn well after you’ve finished reading it.”
— Kevin Moffett, author of Only Son

“Terrance Wedin doesn’t pull any punches as he depicts the gritty reality of the service industry. Written in spare prose and dialogue that always feels spoken, ANCHOR is a dazzling and audacious debut from a powerful writer.”
— Chris Offutt, Author of the Mick Hardin series

“Traversing the pitch-black hours between last call and dawn, Terrance Wedin’s ANCHOR draws us to the sticky underbelly of a half-haunted Austin with some killer gut punches on the way down. For fans of Denis Johnson, Wedin is one to watch.”
— Amelia Gray, author of Isadora and Gutshot

“Terrance Wedin’s ANCHOR is blunt and unrestrained, and gave me that achy-hearted feeling I look for in art. Wedin captures the end of the aughts well, when there was time left to squander, time for one more mistake, but it doesn’t last forever.”
— Mary Miller, author of Biloxi and Always Happy Hour

“ANCHOR is a compassionate yet unsentimental novel of life at the gutter edge of America. These luckless losers, with their big dreams and bad tattoos and blown last chances, come alive in clean prose reminiscent of Larry Brown, Donald Ray Pollock, and Lucia Berlin. ANCHOR is a highly bingeable, admirably sleazy, full-hearted kick in the head.”
— Justin Taylor, author of Reboot

ANCHOR is the debut novel from Terrance Wedin

October 13th. Paperback. US $16.95