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Kinfolk : a novel /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2024Copyright date: �2023Edition: Center Point Large Print editionDescription: 479 pages (large print) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9798891640306
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23/eng/2019
LOC classification:
  • PS3604.I2254 K56 2024d
Summary: "1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or Nub, has spent his whole life listening to those he loves tell him he's no good -- first his ex-wife, now his always-disapproving daughter. Sure, his escapades have made him, along with his cousin and perennial sidekick, Benny, just a smidge too familiar with small-town law enforcement, but he's never harmed anyone -- except perhaps himself. Nub never meant to change his ways, but when he and fifteen-year-old Waffle House waitress Minnie form an unlikely friendship, he realizes for the first time that there may be some good in him after all. Six-foot-five Minnie has been dealt a full deck of bad luck -- her father is a convicted murderer serving a life sentence, her mother is dead and buried, and she has a Grand Ole Opry worthy singing voice with no place to perform. Oh, and there's the small fact that she's unexpectedly pregnant, courtesy of a no-good high-school boy. Gradually, Nub realizes the gift he's been given: a second chance to make a difference."--
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Regular print version previously published by Harper Muse.

Includes discussion questions and author's note with background information.

"1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or Nub, has spent his whole life listening to those he loves tell him he's no good -- first his ex-wife, now his always-disapproving daughter. Sure, his escapades have made him, along with his cousin and perennial sidekick, Benny, just a smidge too familiar with small-town law enforcement, but he's never harmed anyone -- except perhaps himself. Nub never meant to change his ways, but when he and fifteen-year-old Waffle House waitress Minnie form an unlikely friendship, he realizes for the first time that there may be some good in him after all. Six-foot-five Minnie has been dealt a full deck of bad luck -- her father is a convicted murderer serving a life sentence, her mother is dead and buried, and she has a Grand Ole Opry worthy singing voice with no place to perform. Oh, and there's the small fact that she's unexpectedly pregnant, courtesy of a no-good high-school boy. Gradually, Nub realizes the gift he's been given: a second chance to make a difference."--

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