The Starlight Inn

Chuck Hicks was three years old when a social media headset glitch caused five billion people to believe they were God and jump off the nearest roof. Chuck has some hilarious vid-books of the event if you're interested. Pure-comedy-gold. Now seventeen, Chuck is stuck in an isolated, fundamentalist Christian compound. It's not even the good kind of cult. The girls wear flower dresses that double as burial shrouds, and the boys learn woodworking skills with hand chisels and awls. ...
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Chuck Hicks was three years old when a social media headset glitch caused five billion people to believe they were God and jump off the nearest roof. Chuck has some hilarious vid-books of the event if you're interested. Pure-comedy-gold. Now seventeen, Chuck is stuck in an isolated, fundamentalist Christian compound. It's not even the good kind of cult. The girls wear flower dresses that double as burial shrouds, and the boys learn woodworking skills with hand chisels and awls. My God, awls? He's also plagued by scrupulosity, a rare religious form of OCD which demands he repent for thinking about boobs by tapping his forehead in the mud and counting to seventy-seven. It gets him very little intercourse. When his disabled brother is miraculously healed of a terminal disease, their church declares it proof of the Lord's imminent return. Except his brother faked the miracle using medicine that's banned nationwide. To stop his brother from reverting into a sack of hairy jelly, Chuck and his friends must escape their religious compound and journey across a bizarre, corporation-run middle-America in search of an actual miracle. Their quest: Locate a mysterious nightclub in a remote Wyoming canyon, rumored to possess supernatural powers. The Starlight Inn is a coming of age, speculative novel about losing faith and finding life.