Something New Came: Allen Mendenhall’s Hilarious & Ominous First Novel ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Something New Came: Allen Mendenhall’s Hilarious & Ominous First Novel ~ The Imaginative Conservative

In a very short novel, Allen Mendenhall manages to combine a great deal of philosophical and quasi-theological reflection, Twain-like adolescent comedy, and Faulkner-like familial dysfunction, adding to the Southern literary tradition’s collection of tales filled with absurdity, hilarity, shattering revelation, and haunting desire, all mixed to disturb and delight. A Glooming Peace This Morning by Allen Mendenhall (130 pages, Livingston Press, 2…