Author Dawn Major

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil' The Media Giant" Haley and Paul Hollis will interview Author Dawn Major.

A DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY SEEKS A DO-OVER IN A QUAINT TOWN, BUT IN ADDITION TO PACKING UP THEIR OWN PERSONAL DEMONS, THEY DISCOVER THE LOCALS AREN'T SO WELCOMING.

The quaint town of Lawrenceton, Missouri isn't sending out the welcoming committee for its newest neighbors from Los Angeles-the Samples' family. Shannon Lamb's "Like a Virgin" fashion choices, along with her fortune-telling mother, Wendy Samples, and her no-good, cheating, jobless, stepfather, Dale Samples, result in Shannon finding few fans in L-Town where proud family lines run deep. Only townie, Eddy Bauman, is smitten with Shannon and her Valley Girl ways. The Bystanders is a dark coming-of-age story set in the 1980s when big hair was big, and MTV ruled. In a quiet town of annual picnics and landscapes, the Samples' rundown trailer and odd behaviors aren't charming the locals. Shannon and Wendy could really use some friends but must learn to rely upon themselves to claw their way out of poverty and abuse if they want to escape Dale. The Bystanders pays homage to Americana, its small-town eccentricities, and the rural people of the Northern Mississippi Delta region of Southeast Missouri, a unique area of the country where people still speak Paw Paw French and honor Old World traditions. [A1]