Following the critical acclaim for his debut Patrick Flanery's Fallen Land is his astonishing break-out novel; a nail-biting story powered by a fierce anger at the utter failure of the American dream & the greatest fears that lurk in every one of us. Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now the farm has been carved up the trees torn down; a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives & societies taking place all over America. Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of his dream. Julia & Nathaniel arrive from Boston with their son Copley & buy up Paul's signature home in a foreclosure sale. They move into the half-finished subdivision & settle in to their brave new world. Yet violence lies just beneath the surface of this land & simmers deep within Nathaniel. The great trees bear witness Louise lives on in her beleaguered farmhouse & as reality shifts & the edges of what is right & wrong blur & are lost Copley becomes convinced that someone is living in the house with them.