Publisher's Synopsis
An exploration of fear, spirituality, lust, and depraved violence; set in a strangely familiar world of horror, psycho drama, and mystical force.East District opens with 3 teen boys apparently disposing of the body of a battered youth out by the tracks. "Light as a baby" says Marvin, dragging the body across the plains, then wrapping it in a trash bag and slinging the bundle over his back. The boys go to a former Math teacher, who instructs them to stash the bag in his shed. "I knew Mr.Cobb would understand. He was in the service." What's happening inside the chain-link fenced borders of East District? Missing teens. Brutal and unnatural murders. An ambivalent, uncompromising work of racial, spiritual and sexual complexity that questions what's real, what's not, and what matters.
