Mighty, Mighty

Mighty, Mighty is a modern day fable set in a crumbling metropolis riddled with urban poverty and violence. Dirty apartments, tattoo parlors, food kitchens – these are the markers of home for the struggling young adults around Chicago. Stefy is an artist at Ghost Town, the local tattoo shop, trying to provide for her younger sister Amanda and their ailing grandfather. Amanda is hoping for something better, seeking to escape a past riddled with addiction and an abusive relationship with Georgie. When he confronts her one drunken night at a dive bar, the situation turns violent: Amanda barely escapes with her life but Georgie lies dead on the bathroom floor. This one mistake puts the two sisters in the crosshairs of Georgie’s father, a twisted, corrupt ex-cop now out for revenge over the murder of his son. His quest for vengeance will make the neighborhoods of Chicago tremble, leaving no one untouched.

Mighty, Mighty is a harsh and realistic look at the struggle of two families desperately trying to get out from under the heavy boot of violence and poverty. Like the works of Richard Price and Dennis Lehane, the novel is a startling and accurate portrait of contemporary urban lifeWALLY RUDOLPH is a multidisciplinary artist and novelist based in Los Angeles. He is the author of the literary novels Four Corners and MIGHTY, MIGHTY (Counterpoint/Soft Skull). His work explores identity, power, memory, and the unseen forces shaping ordinary lives, often moving between realism and the surreal. A former Writer-in-Residence at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica, Rudolph’s artistic practice spans fiction and screen, with guest-starring roles on Sons of Anarchy, Legion, Street Kings, and the award-winning independent film Bang Bang. Born in Canada to Jamaican immigrants and raised in Texas, he now lives in Los Angeles with his son, Redd.