Lost Kingdoms
A Novel

Phillip H. McMath

ISBN 978-09768007-3-6
6 x 9
Paper back, 528 pages
$19.95

With the appearance of his latest novel, Lost Kingdoms, Phillip H. McMath has completed his fictional trilogy that began with Native Ground (1984) and Arrival Point (1991). Now in Lost Kingdoms, the fictional Elizabeth Shaw flashes back via grief and remembrance on the death of her son, Christopher, the Marine hero of Native Ground killed in Vietnam.This medium of memory and loss weaves together the lives of several families (White, Black, and Red) and the tragic story of Arkansas, the South, the Southwest, and Mexico, and slowly emerges as a philosophical-historical tapestry not only as a tale uniquely its own but also as a comment on the meaning of history itself.

Phillip McMath has virtually a musician’s ear for dialect and dialogue that suffuses this grand Southern epic of war and peace. A deft combination of family saga and transcendental history, the book pays special attention to the Civil War in Arkansas and explores the shared lives of blacks and whites in a particularly engaging way.Anyone who doubts that the South was and still is a country needs to read Lost Kingdoms.

— Morris S.Arnold
author of Unequal Laws Unto a Savage Race

Phillip H. McMath, writer, trial lawyer, and Vietnam veteran, has combined an interest in history, his native South, and war to create a unique body of work in fiction, drama, and journalism. One critic said of his second novel, Arrival Point, that “Phillip McMath knows and evokes the diverse worlds of Vietnam, China, Russia, and Arkansas, and uses them adroitly as settings for a tale of intrigue, revenge, love, and human values.”