Southpaw

Left-handers. Talking dogs. Gangsters and hobos and vengeful Greek Gods—  Something strange is happening beneath the Los Angeles River. 

When thirty-year-old tattoo artist Fiona Dam comes home to Frogtown to find her boyfriend and maltipoo suddenly gone AWOL, she’s already had a weird enough day to know that something sinister is afoot. As her search takes her seemingly everywhere but the river—that cement behemoth of danger and decay—various encounters with a myriad of oddball Angeleno outcasts help her to weave the mystery together piece-by-piece. All she’s got to do to solve it is to search where she least wants to look. 

Meanwhile, Icarus J. Spinoza wakes up (sans maltipoo) on the banks of the LA River next to a talking goldendoodle named Charon. Together, they sweep the river for his lost dog MacGuffin, as Icarus finds his quest unwittingly enmeshed with Charon’s own: A fascistic coyote claiming to be dogkind’s messianic hero, The Southpaw, has rallied dogs, left-handers, and gangsters alike in his monomaniacal plot to overthrow the city. Can Icarus, with the help of Charon and his river-dwelling allies, thwart the coyote’s incendiary plot before it’s too late? Does he want to? 

More importantly: Who, exactly, is a Good Dog? 

A contemplative literary satire at a time when people desperately need to both laugh and think, Southpaw seamlessly blends elements of mystery and urban fantasy to create a world that is as unique as it is undeniable, a playful vessel through which to probe the ever-deepening tension between modern society and the human condition. Above all else, Southpaw is the product of a dedicated novelist writing about what he knows best.

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