WADE, STABB, THE BIG MAN, THE DRIVER, AND THE WIND
A Novel by Preston Leigh
Wade isn't sure if he's chasing a ghost or running from one. The shadow of a hawk stalks him across decades-from The Canyon of his childhood to the deep scars of manhood-drawing him toward truths too painful to face and too sacred to ignore. Wade embarks on a journey through memory, grief, and an unforgiving landscape. His journey unfolds in the badlands of the American Southwest, alongside a wild-eyed trickster, Stabb, a Native spiritualist who speaks in riddles and smoke; and The Big Man, a doctor of anthropology whose past is as fractured and hidden as Wade's own. And a grandfather with secrets baked into the desert floor,
But nothing is ever straightforward in worlds Wade and his ensemble enter. Old pain resurfaces in unexpected ways, and a childhood left behind may hold answers Wade's not ready to face. As past and present blur, Wade tumbles through a labyrinth of memory and myth. Skinwalkers whisper in The Wind. Time bends. A woman he loves is either waiting or gone for good. And that hawk overhead, it's still watching.
With gritty realism and eerie mysticism, WADE, STABB, THE BIG MAN, THE DRIVER, AND THE WIND is a haunting tale with richly developed characters; their friendships, betrayals, and their long, strange road toward becoming whole.
Threaded with folklore, metaphysics, humor, and a deep sense of place, WADE, STABB, THE BIG MAN, THE DRIVER, AND THE WIND is a coming-of-age odyssey. This genre-bending novel fuses the reality we know with mythic undertones and hallucinatory moments that blur the line between dream and memory. It wrestles with questions of identity, destiny, and whether healing means returning to the past-or letting it go completely.
For fans of Suttree, Reservation Blues, and The Body, this is a novel about what we carry, what we leave behind, and how The Wind never really forgets a name.
