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The child he loves. The idea of a child, he's beginning to understand, is where everything will go wrong.
William works as a human remains removal specialist, removing stains left by the dead. Whether by a bloody crime scene or a quiet domestic death, William is reminded each day of the frailty of human life. As his fiancée, Julie, nears term with their first child William becomes increasingly desperate for a way to overcome his belief that to birth is to kill. But Mrs. Rose, an elementary school principal and messenger pigeon hobbyist, nurtures William's depressive outlook and claims to have a way to prove that William's hesitancy to accept fatherhood is not only natural but necessary.
In this novel of impending parenthood, an idealistic teacher recruits a pliant protégé to join her group of Strangers - a devout collection of kindred minds who have dedicated their lives to cultivating a unique idea of perfection.
But joining is easier than leaving.
- Sales Rank: #2104781 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-12-31
- Released on: 2012-12-31
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
Just like a Palahniuk novel, Stranger Will reads volatile: it could go any way. Caleb J. Ross leads you with a wry smile into dark places, but by the time you realize it's too late. You will follow him anywhere.--Alan Emmins, author of Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners
From the Inside Flap
William Lowson has two months to start believing in the world again.
William works as a human remains removal specialist, removing stains left by the dead. Whether by a bloody crime scene or a quiet domestic death, William is reminded each day of the frailty of human life. As his fiancée, Julie, nears term with their first child William becomes increasingly desperate for a way to overcome his belief that to birth is to kill.
But Mrs. Rose, an elementary school principal and messenger pigeon hobbyist, nurtures William's depressive outlook and claims to have a way to prove that William's hesitancy toaccept fatherhood is not only natural but necessary.
About the Author
Caleb J. Ross has a BA in English Literature and creative writing from Emporia State University. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared widely, both online and in print. He is the author of Charactered Pieces: stories, Stranger Will: a novel, I Didn't Mean to Be Kevin: a novel, Murmurs: Gathered Stories Vol. One, and As a Machine and Parts. He is the creator of The Book Burning Channel (youtube.com/user/calebjross), a YouTube channel featuring humorous book reviews, literary skits, writing advice, and rants. He is a contributor to ManArchy Magazine (ManArchyMag.com) and is a core contributor to The BookTube Vidcast (youtube.com/user/TheBookTubeNetwork), which gathers YouTube book personalities for round table discussions on literature.
Visit his official page at calebjross.com, his Twitter feed at calebjross.com/twitter, his Facebook at calebjross.com/facebook and his Google+ at calebjross.com/Google.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Hits & Misses
By Lea
I keep procrastinating on writing a review for this book, mainly because I just don't know what to say about it. I'm not even sure how I feel about it!
Let's get the boring, nitpicky stuff out of the way -- as usual. Typos, which seemed to get worse as the book went along. Everything from misspellings to what seem to be misused words. Why?? I expect this in a goodreads win -- because they're most likely sending out proofs rather than finished editions -- but this wasn't a win, I bought this on Amazon, so I expect the quality to compare to any other book I'd pick up in a store. This kind of sloppiness just doesn't make me a fan.
Now that's out of the way . . .
This is a very interesting story. William and Julie are expecting their first child -- a child William is determined not to have. He works with heavy duty chemicals as a "human remains removal specialist", and fears the damage the chemicals may have already done to the unborn baby. In his endeavor to be rid of the child, he is helped by the mysterious Mrs. Rose.
This idea was so compelling to me that I had Amazon overnight a copy when I couldn't find it locally -- something I almost never do. I'm just too cheap to pay for that kind of postage, but I just had to read it as soon as possible.
Was it worth it?
I don't know. I found the characters and their lives grotesque and unlikable. Even Julie, who -- as a mom -- I felt I should have been most sympathetic to. They're all so mired in these ridiculously pointless lives, it's difficult to empathize with them. On the other hand, has any parent escaped having an instant (or more) of doubt and fear when faced with the reality of having children? It's such a huge responsibility, one I know I felt vastly unprepared for. So it wasn't like I couldn't understand William's reluctance to accept this new role.
I also found William's solution to his "problem" truly horrific -- even thinking about it now makes me feel upset, even nauseated.
I think I was looking for a different story, one in which William and Julie have their doubts -- about parenthood and about each other -- but work their way through the problems to reach a new point in their lives. This is NOT that story.
I didn't really understand what Mrs. Rose was striving to attain, or why so many people were willing to help her. I didn't understand William's passivity throughout the story. In the end, I did sympathize just a bit with Julie, but not enough that I ended up liking her.
Having said all that, though, I can't give this book only 1 star. I didn't like it, but that doesn't make it a bad book -- I think my reaction to it is indicative of how it challenged my values and my beliefs. The ideas presented would probably rate 4 stars -- they really are that intriguing.
So I guess I'll split the difference and give it 3 stars, subject to change as I ponder this book in the coming weeks.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Darkness on the wings of fate.
By Richard Thomas
Caleb Ross writes lyrical prose that pulls you into the politics and morality of this story, Stranger Will. For most of us, children are the future, they represent hope and dreams. But in this novel they represent the fated, the already lost. Conspiracies only seem paranoid and insane if they have no base in reality. One of the most compelling images that has stuck with me in this novel, for years now, is the carrier pigeon, message tied to its tiny clawed foot, shot from the sky. The note stuck up on a wall, strings stretching from one place to another, one person to another, tying together layers of deceit, love, and failure. This is a novel you won't want to put down, and will compel you to check out more work by Caleb Ross. Keep a candle lit to keep away the stench, a light on to force away the dark forces, and a prayer in your heart that none of this comes anywhere near you. Or your children.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Forget your expectations and try not to eat before reading...
By Stephen Krauska
In his first full length novel, Kansas City native Caleb J. Ross waxes prosaic the age old case of jitters that comes with impending fatherhood. William Lowson, Ross's protagonist, works cleaning up, not the dead, but the stains they have left behind. Will wonders throughout the book about the impressions people make on each other, on the walls, ceilings and floorboards of their demise, and most importantly their children. Ross is not afraid to take the unruly facts of reality and rub them in your face using whichever of the senses he can get his hands on. Speaking of his fiancé's home-style cooking, his nasty line of work and the inescapable ills of a terminal existence Will soliloquys, "onion and paprika cannot mask the taste of chemicals used to absolve blood and skin from highways and dashboards," and that's just the first page.
Stranger Will begins as something of a dark comedy. A reluctant father, trying to convince his fiancé to not carry the baby to term, or at least give it up after the fact, crudely makes jokes comparing the child to a tapeworm he once had, curiously named Paul. Will's chiding of Julie at first evokes chuckles and sighs for both their perversion and truisms but, counter to one's expectations of a leading figure in a novel, the jokes do not hide a nervous-yet-well-meaning-heart, rather something more pessimistic and Nietzsche-esque.
As the novel continues, the plot gets increasingly dark and starkly less comedy and Ross's writing all the more pointed. It reads like a nightmare you wake up from in the middle of the night and spend the next day wondering how much of it was real. The twists are shocking and terrifying, but somehow founded in reason and not entirely unbelievable.
Importantly, the entire time Ross is grossing his readers out with scenes like a game of catch played with a dead raccoon, and very authoritative (note, not "know-it-all") descriptions of body remnants and the chemicals needed to clean them, he is also writing really well. Conversations are small but effective with regionally flavored bits of speech such as
"I remember a fireworks show a couple years ago around there. Got a niece that lives in the area. If it's the right area, I mean,"
which might have been glossed by a lesser writer. In a scene at the bedside of an ill loved one, Ross deftly reveals Will's inner-workings writing,
"he can't help but take notice of the way he breathes so easily, of his lungs pumping air unaided into a body strong enough to stand on its own,"
in a pointedly remorseful juxtaposition that helps his character come out as more than just a grossly sarcastic father-to-be but several tons more human.
As proven by his short stories in Charactered Pieces (Outside Writers 2009) Ross has a forte for metaphor, and as Stranger Will meanders through the increasingly dark life of Will a portrait of the human life cycle emerges. From birth, to education, the desire and inevitable failure to fit in, the building and destroying of relationships, past times, hobbies and paradigms; a few strange weeks in the life of Ross's Will tell the tale of getting through those times in our lives where we seem the strangest, not to others, but to ourselves.
Charles Bukowski dedicated the thinly fictionalized account of his young life, Ham on Rye, with the words "for all the fathers" as the simultaneous threat, fear, blame and praise a delinquent child squares on his father. Such a dedication would be fitting for Caleb J. Ross's Stranger Will.
This review originally appeared in Cannoli Pie Magazine. It is used with permission and is the property of the editors.
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