A short history of a small place

"Pearson's is a different and distinctive voice and a most welcome one. In this novel his talent shows sparks of genius." THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Young Louis Benfield tells the story of his tiny little North Carolina town. There is the looniness of his family, the town of characters, the charm and naviete that gives us a world unknown, and stories that deserve to be told about how it is to grow up a certain kind of way, and to suddenly discover there's a world beyond your own that calls to you....