It is 1943, and the war has come home to Loring, Mississippi. As German POWs labor in the cotton fields, the local draft board sends boys into uniform, and families receive flags and condolences. But for Dan Timms, just shy of 18, the war is his ticket out of town and away from the ghosts that ha...
But even as she stopped speaking to me unless it was absolutely necessary, she started going by my parents’ house every morning before class and most afternoons, too, helping Dad to change the diaper Momma now had to wear and to give her a bath. They were eligible for Home Health, but he was frig...
In addition to Matt, he’d invited three or four couples who lived on his block, Dushay and his mother, plus Paul Nowicki and Matt’s ex-wife. When Matt asked why he’d included the Nowickis, his friend said that just the other day he’d been elected to the board of the local PAWS chapter, which of c...