Andrew Lipstein is the founder and editor of 0s&1s Reads, a digital bookstore and literary website featuring interviews, essays and excerpts. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, VICE, Electric Literature, The Rumpus and more.
Search Sweet Country opens with the town fool Beni Baidoo sitting in the bush near the beach listening to the “language of the sea” that “spoke in shells that he could understand.”…