Antediluvian Press

Told he was made for college, Waylan Gray finds himself among a cast of intelligent and quirky friends, a world of possibility stretching before him. A dark and terrifying force arises within him, which he comes to know as “the forgetting.” To reconcile his splintering psyche, Waylan embarks on a journey that will propel him to the top of a mountain, the length of the Mississippi River and into th

e abyss of his subconscious. In the tradition of Catcher in the Rye and The Sound and the Fury, Land Tumbling Backwards is a coming-of-age novel poignant for its setting in a pre-Katrina New Orleans and socially relevant for its unflinching look at depression. "A moving, sometimes searing, roller-coaster that dips into the horror of clinical depression and climbs above those waters into the brighter but uncertain lights of memory and hope."

— Brian W.