Soul Resin - Reviews

"C.W. Cannon's Soul Resin foments cognitive revolutions. An eerie synthesis of horror story, historical novel, social comedy, anti-story and realism, it moves through a violet netherworld that is at once gorgeous and disquieting. New Orleans has always been clogged with restless dead: here, they slither among the ghosts of the living and seem to outlive them. Truly original. "

-Luis Alberto Urrea

"A masterpiece of experimental fiction. Cannon takes his readers through the darkest shadows of America's cultural history, and the primary tour guide is Mills Loomis Mills, who is one of the most memorable characters I've ever come across in fiction. Cannon's use of multiple points of views is perfect--stirring, frightening and --it should not go unmentioned--frequently hilarious. This is truly fiction on the edge."

-Don De Grazia

"This is an ambitious first novel, in content and in form, taking on the complexities of race and of history in a city still very much struggling with both. A typical first novel might have had Mills take on the narrative chores himself, which might well have resulted in a less complex, less eloquent, and less successful novel."

-New Orleans Review