Sing, Ronnie Blue: 1

Gary D. Wilson’s much-awaited debut novel, set in Bartlett’s Junction, Kansas, details the lives of its two main characters, Ronnie Blue, son of a local junk yard owner, and John Klein, son of the president of the town’s only bank, from their high school friendship and subsequent drifting apart to their fateful reengagement five years later during an Independence Day celebration in their hometown. An intensely moving story, Wilson’s novel takes a long and honest look at the economic and class divisions in our society that produce people such as Ronnie Blue. Wilson’s depth of character, coupled with a sophisticated style and poetic wordplay that calls to mind The Great Gatsby, makes Sing, Ronnie Blue a book that should appeal to a broad and appreciative audience.