Empire, Nevada is the story of a town on the edge of erasure—and a boy caught in the middle of its collapse. When the gypsum plant shutters and the population starts to vanish, seventeen-year-old Paul Simpkins is left behind with a grieving father, fractured friendships, and the memory of a mother who took her own life.
Set in the real-life ghost town of Empire, this coming-of-age novel blends dark humor, aching nostalgia, and raw emotional honesty. It’s about small-town decay, the weight of memory, and what happens when the world you’ve always known starts to burn.
Read the first chapter here – https://empirenevadathenovel.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/empires-first-chapter/
Frank M. Anderson's Writing 