Pop Salvation

by Lance Reynald

A debut novel of exceptional talent,

Pop Salvation shows how sometimes paintings of soup cans can be religious art,

The Rocky Horror Picture Show can provide a community of fellow freaks,

and that some boys grow up to be Marilyn Monroe.

available now from Harper-Perennial.

Twelve-year-old outcast Caleb Watson is not like the other children struggling through the sheltered world of private school in Washington, D.C. Not only has he skipped a year in school, making him smaller than the rest of the boys, but his Southern accent and effeminate characteristics set him apart even further. On a field trip to the art museum he discovers the art of Andy Warhol, another outcast who becomes his hero—his icon. In the art and philosophy of Pop, Caleb finds sanctuary from his own life. He begins to transform himself and the friends he meets along the way into his own little version of Warhol’s factory. Not the normal depiction of the polished life of D.C. and its prep schools, Pop Salvation is the story of finding yourself by becoming the art you adore.