SWEET DREAM BABY
By Sterling Watson

Elmore Leonard:

I can't remember a book that sneaked up and grabbed me the way SWEET DREAM BABY did. It's a real shocker by a very good writer.

Publishers Weekly:

America's loss of innocence in the rock and roll 1950s parallels one boy's painful transformation into a man in Watson's affecting fifth novel. The suspense builds to an explosive ending, and Travis's coming of age is brutal, touching and memorable. Watson ... proves himself a first-rate storyteller.

Dennis Lehane:

Sterling Watson's SWEET DREAM BABY is one of the finest novels I've read in years, an incandescent blend of gothic noir, Faulknerian dreamscape and bittersweet coming-of-age story. Months after reading it, it haunts me still.

Michael Connelly, author of CHASING THE DIME:

SWEET DREAM BABY is a beautiful book. Sterling Watson is surehanded and telling in a story that is as elegiac as it is gripping.

Kirkus Reviews:

A southern boy's fantasy of coming of age under the guidance of his languorous older aunt could make this a sneaky sleeper.

Fred Chappell, author of LOOK BACK ALL THE GREEN VALLEY:

Sterling Watson's SWEET DREAM BABY brings us the words and music, the tastes and smells of that special time-as well as its heartache and secret shame. I was utterly absorbed in the fierce pages.