Something is running amok in the fields of Pennsylvania Amish country. To solve the mystery, three generations of prodigal sons are brought together in a masterfully orchestrated, hilarious, and compelling take on the classic horror yarn.
A manic, inventive, and painfully funny debut novel, "Lord of the Barnyard" is about a town's dirty laundry--and a garbagemen's strike that lets it all hang out." . . . A tornado of almost biblical proportion" ("Le Monde").
Author of the internationally acclaimed "Lord of the Barnyard, " Egolf has established himself as one of the most audacious young writers in America. With "Skirt and the Fiddle, " Egolf has given readers a novel that is equal parts headlong plunge into the joys and absurdity of infatuation and a love song to the maddening folly of friendship.