Description: Author Chris Minnick exposes the gritty events and strange characters that inhabit a small traveling circus in his first novel, FERMENT. Set in the recent past, the book provides a glimpse of what life might be like in the final days of a once-great institution of American entertainment. FERMENT bounces between past and present and between the ordinary and the extraordinary with playful and deceivingly simple language. The mysteries of the circus bubble up throughout the story's twists and turns as the reader is drawn into a troubled world of people, institutions, and morals on the edge of collapse.Minnick's style has been compared to that of Kurt Vonnegut or Charles Bukowski. Readers who enjoy reading about quirky, raw characters and unfamiliar situations will love Ferment.
