Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbor, Fenton Johnson's landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole.
Fenton Johnson is the author of award-winning fiction and literary nonfiction, including the novels Crossing the River and The Man Who Loved Birds, as well as Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey among Christian and Buddhist Monks and Geography of the Heart: A Memoir. He is associate professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona and teaches in the MFA program at Spalding University in Louisville.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Pam Houston High Bridge Back Where She Came From Little Deaths All Fall Down The Way Things Will Always Be Cowboys Guilt Scissors, Paper, Rock Some Kind of Family Where Do We Come From, What Are We, Where Are We Going? Miss Camilla Speaks Acknowledgments
