Comfort & Joy by Jim Grimsley  (12)
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Eight-year-old southerner Danny Crell recounts his premature entry into manhood, precipitated by a violent quarrel between his father, an abusive drunk, and his mother, whose emotional detachment is nearly as frightening.
From the Author
This book had a long strange journey to publication.
This was the first book I wrote, and for a lot of reasons publishers were slow to respond to it. I finished the book in 1984 and sent it out to publishers and agents for a very long time. Finally in 1992 the book was published by a German publisher in translation, and I had the unusual sensation of having my first novel in my hands even though I couldn't read a word of it beyond the names. My German publisher then took the book on as a mission and found first a French publisher and then a publisher in the United States in 1994. Most of the people I sent the book to in this country were wary of the difficult family material, the violence of the father, and the unrelieved sadness of the situation. I was lucky that books like Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina changed people's minds about this kind of story.
Eight-year-old southerner Danny Crell recounts his premature entry into manhood, precipitated by a violent quarrel between his father, an abusive drunk, and his mother, whose emotional detachment is nearly as frightening.
From the Author
This book had a long strange journey to publication.
This was the first book I wrote, and for a lot of reasons publishers were slow to respond to it. I finished the book in 1984 and sent it out to publishers and agents for a very long time. Finally in 1992 the book was published by a German publisher in translation, and I had the unusual sensation of having my first novel in my hands even though I couldn't read a word of it beyond the names. My German publisher then took the book on as a mission and found first a French publisher and then a publisher in the United States in 1994. Most of the people I sent the book to in this country were wary of the difficult family material, the violence of the father, and the unrelieved sadness of the situation. I was lucky that books like Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina changed people's minds about this kind of story.
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Out past the clapboard house in the weeds by the river-bank your brothers are killing birds. Read the first page
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