Eli Cranor played college football, and even professionally in Sweden for a bit. He came back to Arkansas to teach high school and coach football. His debut novel, Don't Know Tough, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel and was on The New York Times and USA Today’s best books of the year lists. Eli appeared on Book Talk for his second novel, Ozark Dogs, which landed on The New York Times and The Guardian’s lists of best crime novels of the year. He return to the program today to conclude our discussion about his latest novel, Broiler, which is published by SOHO Crime. Broiler is a novel of desperation involving two couples, the white, upper middle-class Mimi and Luke and the undocumented Gabriela and Edwin who work at the chicken processing plant which Luke manages.