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Algonquin Books
September 2005
On Sale: September 14, 2005
Featuring: Tank; Joel
192 pages
ISBN: 1565124847
EAN: 9781565124844
Hardcover
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In Michael Parker’s new novel, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story
of how he did everything he could to save his family after
his mother left and his father’s tenuous hold on sanity
unraveled. On a journey from the town of Trent, North
Carolina, to the coast, Joel and his little brother Tank
thread their way back to their mother, fueled by potato
chips, Coke, and the soundtrack of the powerful soul music
that their daddy taught them to love. Always keeping the
faith that their mother is waiting for them, they move from
one kindly stranger to another on their odyssey, Joel ever
certain they are being guided to her door: “I was being
passed from person to person,” he says, “on my way back into
her wide open window.” Caught between the endless idealism of childhood and the
sobering tests of adulthood, Joel and Tank bravely negotiate
their way through a landscape of love and beauty,
abandonment and betrayal, to learn that the one sure thing
is often right by your side.
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