Publisher Description

Lorraine, his hillbilly girlfriend who is carrying his child, gives him an ultimatum: call it off or she'll split. Bart summons his emotionally distant, twenty-nine-year-old son Marcel from New York to help him hold on to Lorraine. But Marcel finds himself falling for Lorraine, even as he sorts out his ambiguous feelings for Bart.

Author Biography

John Nichols is the author of On Top of Spoon Mountain, The Wizard of Loneliness, A Ghost in the Music, If Mountains Die, The Milagro Beanfield War, and other works. He lives in Taos, New Mexico.

Review

"Shaped in a prose of beautiful clarity and simplicity... Humor leavened with compassion; untidy, constantly surprising life; loss and remembrance--all play a part in Nichols's exhilarating music." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

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"Shaped in a prose of beautiful clarity and simplicity. . . . Humor leavened with compassion; untidy, constantly surprising life; loss and remembrance--all play a part in Nichols's exhilarating music."

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"Shaped in a prose of beautiful clarity and simplicity. . . . Humor leavened with compassion; untidy, constantly surprising life; loss and remembrance--all play a part in Nichols's exhilarating music."

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