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"Jessup Burke, a lonely, naive sixteen-year-old, has grown up without a father in an indifferent, economically deprived logging town. Out of high school a year early, he now bikes the back roads and roams the woods with his fishing gear, daydreaming of his sweetheart and their secret "home" in an abandoned farmhouse.". "When twenty-nine-year-old Reg Cumber, an embittered, paranoid recluse - fresh out of jail for growing marijuana - encounters Jessup hitchhiking, he is drawn to the boy's naivete, and the two soon become irreversibly bound. Jessup befriends Marigold, Reg's younger sister, whose…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2010CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 272 pages · 9781451564846
- Other · English · 2001Penguin (Non-Classics) · 272 pages · 9780140298376
- Other · English · 2000Viking · 264 pages · 9780670885176
Teenage boysFatherless familiesRural conditionsFictionNew York Times reviewedFiction, coming of ageVermont, fiction








