In this story, there are three narrators. Leonie, far from being the ideal mother of two children, is in a constant conflict with herself and those around her. Her thirteen-year-old son Jojo, who cares much more for his five-year-old sister...
than Leonie does, is learning from his grandfather what it means to be a man. And another narrator is the boy Richie, who died in Parchman prison, a contemporary of Jojo. Leonie and her children are heading to that very prison to pick up their just-released father, Michael. Along the way through Mississippi, both the characters and the readers learn a lot about family secrets and the hardships of life in the American South.
In this story, there are three narrators. Leonie, far from being the ideal mother of two children, is in a constant conflict with herself and those around her. Her thirteen-year-old son Jojo, who cares much more for his five-year-old sister than Leonie does, is learning from his grandfather what it means to be a man. And another narrator is the boy Richie, who died in Parchman prison, a contemporary of Jojo. Leonie and her children are heading to that very prison to pick up their just-released father, Michael. Along the way through Mississippi, both the characters and the readers learn a lot about family secrets and the hardships of life in the American South.
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