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"When Gary left Zinctown, Tennessee, fourteen years ago, he left behind a father he couldn't please, a long-dead brother whose memory was inescapable, and a girl who was carrying his child. He hadn't planned on coming back." "But he did.". "Zinctown is where he discovers his fourteen-year-old son, Taft, for the very first time. And it's where Taft, no longer a child but not quite a man, finds himself contending with three men vying to be his role model: the father who abandoned him, his ex-convict uncle, and a grandfather whose eyes are focused on the past. On hand to explain it all to him is…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2003Picador · 320 pages · 9780312422356
- Other · English · 2002Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 308 pages · 9781565123236
Teenage boysZinc mines and miningBildungsromansFathers and sonsFictionIllegitimate childrenFiction, generalFathers and sons, fiction






