The Southern Gothic, punk rock, adventure novel by Bard McLugh, Nowhere, is the story of one man’s journey, his searching without thinking and his finding without looking. Mack the main character and his voluptuous young girlfriend, Lola Diamond, go on a tear through the South in a mindless journey of murder, robbery, sex, drugs and mayhem. Yet throughout this anarchic journey, Mack whose mind is “blank” has dreams and visions that haunt him and threaten to overturn his numbness to the world. Yet Mack does not awake. Or the reader is left in the dark, as the last vision takes place in the final chapter and the reader can only await the sequel.

Mack is no hero and Lola is no heroine, nor are they meant to be.  They are a depraved, degenerate product of their backwoods Southern upbringing; yet, they are human.

Bard McLugh; writer, novelist, poet and teacher; is a native of Mississippi, who as a young man left his home for the greater, wide world. He has traveled extensively and lived off and on in numerous places scattered here and there. Nowhere was finished in his old motor home on the southern coast of Portugal in the summer of 2012. Despite his travels Bard managed to earn a B.A. and an Masters degree. He has worked and lived in numerous European countries as well as the USA.