“Like an exquisite film noir, Stephen J. West’s Soft-Boiled defies expectations in the best of ways. What begins as the story of a wannabe Watson chronicling a real-life, Appalachian Sherlock Holmes turns into a perplexing mystery of a more personal kind, as the author investigates how a thoughtful, sensitive man can be a better father, partner, artist, and human being. This beguiling hybrid of a book had me entranced from start to finish, and left me pondering not just the stories we tell ourselves about what it means to be a man in America, but the art of storytelling itself.”

—Brian Gresko, editor of When I First Held You

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