Tellers

"A great tribute to *storytelling*.....and the difference it makes in our lives. Rick Moss is a writer with dazzling creative finesse!" -- Elyse, Goodreads #3 Best Reviewer

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ABOUT TELLERS:
The Colony is in mourning. The residents of the Hudson Valley farming collective share a close-knit life and a vision for remaking urban neighborhoods with the skills they are learning. They have also shared a loss so devastating they fear the shock will undermine all their efforts.

In a scheme to unburden themselves, they turn to storytelling. Through their heartrending accounts, we view blighted American cities from society’s fringes — from the squatter homes of Detroit to the embattled streets of Philadelphia. We meet a veteran who returns home to find his neighborhood walled off into a ghetto, an architect who drafts blueprints from the dreams of the dispossessed, and take a hellish subway ride through a dystopian New York. In their tales, we witness the tug of war between blame and forgiveness and, ultimately, the cathartic power of storytelling.

PRAISE FOR TELLERS:
“In Tellers Rick Moss has given us a Matryoshka doll of a book — stories nesting inside stories nesting inside stories. Taken one at a time, each of these stories has a lesson. Taken in pairs, patterns emerge. Taken as a whole, there may just be a lesson or two here for all of us about love, life, failure, redemption, technology, mythology, families, and even social justice." — Ryan Mathews, best selling author, futurist

"Rick Moss’s Tellers is a literary visual tour de force. This second novel by the author is original in structure and style with richly-layered and diverse set of characters. Turning on the notion of storytelling as healing medium, it weaves foreboding imageries of painful memories and dystopian futures with those of hope, birth, and rebirth. The dialogue is alive, gritty, and cuts to the core. Moss maintains a tight narrative and a quick pace as the story advances in parallel from and to a fateful event." — Mohamed Amer

“… Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange); Tom Wolfe (Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) and Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) come to mind. Novels you go back and read again every ten years or so because each time you do the thinking leads you to new insight into your current situation and environment. Today’s read of Tellers may evoke thoughts of the Branch Davidians at Waco and our relationship with institutions of authority. Perhaps it will cause you to contemplate the effects of pollution and climate. Or, as we digest the recent political season, to simply reconsider the importance of ‘the narrative’ in our lives. But it will make you think.” — Ben Ball