Abraham Two-Hill
Jason Broadwater's 2005 debut novel centers on a character marketed as morally ambiguous — someone powerful enough that readers are invited to form their own verdict on whether he's good or bad. Broadwater brings an MFA background and years in secondary English education to what sounds like a philosophically ambitious character study. That framing is genuinely interesting. The honest caveat is a significant one: virtually no critical coverage exists for this title, and the small press that published it has minimal online footprint. There's not enough reader discourse or plot detail available to give a confident recommendation on craft or content. What's here shows ambition. Whether it delivers is harder to verify. Worth a look if the moral-ambiguity premise speaks to you, but go in with open eyes.