Victor Ollnee's Discipline

A college athlete must choose between his reputation and his mother. Victor Ollnee has built his life on athletic glory and fraternity respectability, but when a newspaper exposé brands his mother a fraudulent spiritualist medium, the polished world he's constructed begins to crack. What begins as righteous fury at the press curdles into something more complicated: Victor must face what his shame has been hiding. Hamlin Garland writes with brutal clarity about the collision between respectable America and the desperate, liminal spaces where people go to speak with the dead. The novel questions not whether spiritualism is true, but whether loyalty means anything when the world has made your family a target. This is a story about masculine pride, about what we owe parents who embarrass us, and about the courage it takes to stand beside someone the world has decided to destroy.