Ricky Rice is a middle-aged hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. The sole survivor of a suicide cult, he spends his days scraping by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York. Until one day a letter arrives, reminding him of a vow he once made and summoning him to Vermont's remote Northeast Kingdom to fulfill it.

There, Ricky is inducted into a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom have at some point in their wasted lives heard the Voice: a murmur on the wind, a disembodied shout, a whisper in an empty room. All these may or may not have been messages from God. Their mission is to find the Voice - and figure out what it wants.

Big Machine takes us from Ricky's childhood in a matrilineal cult housed in a New York City tenement to his near-death experience in the basement of an Iowa house owned by a man named Murder. And to his final confrontation with an army of true believers - and with his own past.

Infused with the wonder of a disquieting dream and laced with Victor LaValle's fiendish comic sensibility, Big Machine is a mind-rattling mystery about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.

Big Machine named:

• American Book Award 2010

• Shirley Jackson Award 2009 - Winner - Best Novel

• 10 Best Books of 2009 - Publisher's Weekly

• Favorite Fiction of 2009 - Chicago Tribune

• Best Science Fiction of 2009 - Los Angeles Times

• Best Science Fiction & Fantasy - Washington Post

• Most Valuable Fiction Book of 2009 - The Nation

• Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence 2010 Winner

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