Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him

A coming-of-age saga like no other, reaching beyond the myths of the reckless and romantic rebel, the murdering gunslinger, and the handsome scrapper, one of self-preservation, violence, and contrition, combining an unflinching account of his deeds and his killings with his desperate attempts to escape his own history. This is a complex and authentic Billy- at times a violent character, yet often a sympathetic one always clever, ever engaging but beset by loneliness and regret.

Author Biography

Pamela Ryder is author of the short story collection, A Tendency to Be Gone and two novels-in-stories: Correction of Drift and Paradise Field. Her work has been published in many literary journals, among them Bellevue Literary Review, Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Unsaid, Propagule, Black Warrior Review, Tyrant, Jewish Fiction.net, and Conjunctions.