Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It"s true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey"s life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school. Â Â Â Â Everything changes when Joey"s mother dies in a tragic accident and he is sent to rural Iowa to live with the father he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets. At first, Joey"s father wants nothing to do with him, but once father and son come to terms with each other, Joey"s life takes a turn both macabre and exhilarating. Â Â Â Â Daniel Kraus"s masterful plotting and unforgettable characters make Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality. From the Hardcover edition.