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With the energy, wit, and singularity of eyesight that have acquired him a reputation as a famous and charismatic musician, The Vine That Ate the South announces J.D. Wilkes as an attained storyteller over a surreal, Homeric voyage that hits at the center of American mythology. In a forgotten part of european Kentucky lies a haunted forest described locally as "The Deadening", where vampire cults roam crazy and time is immaterial. Our protagonist and his accomplice - the best Carver Canute - lay out down the Old Spur Range in search of the renowned Kudzu House, where a vintage few is purported to acquire been swallowed whole with a starving vine. Their pursuit leads them in person with albino panthers, Great Dane-riding females, protective property owners, and just about every American folk-demon ever, while forcing the protagonist to finally take stock of his marriage with his dad and the man's mysterious disappearance. The Vine That Ate the South is a mesmerizing fantasia where Wilkes ambitiously grapples with the contradictions of the modern-day North american South while subversively considering how well we know our own relatives and buddies.