Blue Bucket

"Somewhere there's a letter that explains everything, a letter that was undeliverable..." The true tale of a lost wagon train in 1845 entwined with the stark story of two "second-oldest and certainly best friends." Do you really know anyone? The narrator's "dangling matters" only added to Matthew's issues, forcing an overdue visit and shocking revelations. Of a fabled gold mine, an awful childhood incident, a small city on a river few can spell, and the search for the greatest of gifts. Hope. Some peoples' only currency is money. Blue Bucket has been called "disturbing" and "utterly original." Like America, "...stampeded, somehow settled, salted. Now may we retreat inland again --- Ocean ever near and Earth, in memory at least, unending."

Brad Lockwood is the award-winning author of eleven books, novels and major nonfiction. ＂Blue Bucket＂ is the product of eight years of work, and his ode to America’s rustic past, colliding with its precarious present. A regular feature writer for Forbes and The Daily Beast, his other novels include ＂Sellout＂ and ＂Wink＂ -- As well as the historical biography ＂Tested XX: The Case Cutlery Dynasty.＂ Lockwood has written several education titles on Bill Gates, Domestic Spying, in addition to Drug Abuse and Impact on Society. His study of tall tales and their unreal origins is ＂On Giants＂ and Lockwood is presently coauthoring the young adult trilogy ＂ORB＂ with Dean Elliott Case -- The first installment ＂Orb＂ was released in late 2015. Lockwood sometimes lives in Brooklyn.