“Stephen Hundley has summoned forth a world that achieves a sense of strangeness and wonder while creating characters who are unrelentingly human in their flaws and strengths. A remarkable novel by an immensely talented young writer.” —Ron Rash, author of The Caretaker

“This is a wonderful novel—part coming of age, part family drama, part thriller—and beautifully imagined. Written with great care and precision, the characters come alive on the page in a world you won’t forget. Stephen Hundley is a writer to watch.” —Chris Offutt, author of Code of the Hills

“A beautiful, intricate knot of a book.“ —Mesha Maren, author of Perpetual West

“Evocative and eccentric…delivers much more than an offbeat adventure about a tribe of misfits. Gritty, primeval and hauntingly human, Bomb Island is sometimes funny and other times sad. It’s an action-packed thrill ride infused with depth and tenderness.” —Leah Tyler, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Hundley mashes up Mark Twain and Shakespeare with a colorful adventure story about two star-crossed teen lovers. Hundley demonstrates remarkable narrative control.... Once this story sinks its claws into the reader, there’s no shaking it.“ —Publishers Weekly

"A sharp, snappy novel setting a coming-of-age tale in the untamable chaos of the natural world, Bomb Island moves quickly. Hundley's nature-rich novel interrogates the thin line between love and heartbreak." —Stephanie Turza, Booklist

"A taut novel that hints at its characters’ long histories...unpredictable and often charming." —Kirkus Reviews

“Stephen Hundley has summoned forth a world that achieves a sense of strangeness and wonder while creating characters who are unrelentingly human in their flaws and strengths. A remarkable novel by an immensely talented young writer.” —Ron Rash, author of The Caretaker

“This is a wonderful novel—part coming of age, part family drama, part thriller—and beautifully imagined. Written with great care and precision, the characters come alive on the page in a world you won’t forget. Stephen Hundley is a writer to watch.” —Chris Offutt, author of Code of the Hills

“A beautiful, intricate knot of a book.“ —Mesha Maren, author of Perpetual West

“Evocative and eccentric…delivers much more than an offbeat adventure about a tribe of misfits. Gritty, primeval and hauntingly human, Bomb Island is sometimes funny and other times sad. It’s an action-packed thrill ride infused with depth and tenderness.” —Leah Tyler, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Hundley mashes up Mark Twain and Shakespeare with a colorful adventure story about two star-crossed teen lovers. Hundley demonstrates remarkable narrative control.... Once this story sinks its claws into the reader, there’s no shaking it.“ —Publishers Weekly

"A sharp, snappy novel setting a coming-of-age tale in the untamable chaos of the natural world, Bomb Island moves quickly. Hundley's nature-rich novel interrogates the thin line between love and heartbreak." —Stephanie Turza, Booklist

"A taut novel that hints at its characters’ long histories...unpredictable and often charming." —Kirkus Reviews

Stephen Hundley is the author of The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First (University of North Georgia Press, 2023) and Bomb Island (Hub City Press, 2024). He is a fiction editor at Driftwood Press, a book review editor at the Southeast Review, and his stories and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Cream City Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MA from Clemson, an MFA from the University of Mississippi, and is currently completing a PhD in English at Florida State University.