Novel

The Orchard of Teeth 

A Southern Gothic novel 

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The Orchard of Teeth

A Southern Gothic novel

The Orchard of Teeth is a Southern Gothic novel concerned with inheritance, bodily memory, and the quiet violence of what is passed down rather than spoken aloud. Set in a rural landscape shaped by ritual and restraint, the novel examines how families preserve silence—and the cost of carrying it.

At its center is an orchard that functions less as setting than as presence: a place where memory accumulates, history presses close, and the past refuses to remain buried. As grief and belief move through the narrative, the land and the body emerge as parallel archives—each holding what was never meant to surface, each waiting to be read.

The novel resists spectacle in favor of endurance. What unfolds here is not shock, but inevitability: how truth ripens in darkness, how silence hardens into inheritance, and how reckoning arrives not all at once, but when it can no longer be deferred.

Completed manuscript. Representation pending.