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Cotter Myers--a former All American football star turned early-twenties, pot-head, hopeless, shut-in, slacker--has a past that he thought he escaped from, but when his father attempts suicide again and there is no one to care for him, Cotter makes an irrational decision to return to his hometown of Worthington, Illinois--a factory town twenty minutes from the city of Chicago that itself is dying. Cotter Myers returns to an endangered ecosystem--the American, blue-collar, small-town. Strife with drugs, drunks, homelessness, joblessness and a recent wave of violence, Cotter finds it impossible to not slip into the underworld. Reunited with friends from high school, it becomes apparent that his buddies interpret his return as a return of the king. Cotter, no longer the confident alpha-male high school All American athlete, struggles with the truth about his father and himself. The town is looking for a savior and Cotter is quickly nominated as such, a personification of when times were good. Unknown to anyone but the deepest, darkest inner sanctum of Cotter's consciousnous, is a terrible truth, a brutal demon that is growing in strength and ready to burst on the scene. Will Cotter be consumed or will he be able to close the curtain on his past and get out from under? The title of the novel is inspired by the Spoon song "The Underdog", off their album "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga": "I want to forget how conviction fits, But can I get out from under it? Can I gut it out of me? It can't all be wedding cake It can't all be boiled away I try but I can't let go of it Can't let go of it."

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