Grave-robbing. The type of monster would perform such a thing? It’s true that Leonardo da Vinci achieved it, Shakespeare composed about it, and the resurrection males of nineteenth-century Scotland virtually made it a skill. But none of the issues to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A college student living in Chicago along with his solitary mom. Generally, Joey’s life is about playing the trumpet and preventing the daily humiliations of senior high school.

Everything adjustments when Joey’s mother dies in a tragic incident and he’s delivered to rural Iowa to live with the daddy he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets. Initially, Joey’s dad wants nothing in connection with him, but once father and son comprehend each other, Joey’s life takes a switch both macabre and exhilarating.

Daniel Kraus’s masterful plotting and memorable characters produce Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality.