Review: The Gospels of Peter Star by Thomas Drago
Author Thomas Drago constructs a brand new testament of religion and history with The Gospels of Peter Star, an endlessly imaginative retelling of the New Testament.
Fated to unify humanity with music and prepare them for modern-day salvation, Peter Star is the musical savior of the world, a Christlike figure without gender or race, heralded by the Horse Whisperer, and born of a virgin. Throughout this cleverly penned book, religious dogma and biblical stories swirl and blend with musical history – from tricky Major Tom’s circumnavigation of the globe in his tin can to Peter Star’s baptismal walking on […]
Thomas Drago is the author of the Crow Creek series and teaches drama and English in North Carolina. He has published poems, song lyrics, and short stories, appearing most recently in The Explorer, a local literary magazine.
★★★★★
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Apart from a few suicides over the past couple years, the small North Carolina town of Crow Creek is of little note to anyone outside of its residents – friendly, well-acquainted – and while sad news will always rock a community, life goes on for the people within it. That is until the day a sinkhole swallows up a mother and child along with half a football pitch of land, and some residents suddenly have a reason to think that their private suspicions might have common ground, as strange as it may be.