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An evocative, poignant coming-of-age book set in rural Texas in the 1930s. Through events small and large, 13-year-old Harold Stevens matures during a pivotal warmer summer months in the red-dirt backcountry of West Texas. With his friend C.K. Crow, the dark-colored field palm who works for Harold's dad, he shoots deer and quail, fishes for catfish, mends fences, grows and learns about cannabis, and tests his rising manhood against bullies, bulls, and the amazing charms of his horse-riding aged cousin. During a hysterical trip to a circus sideshow, Harold and a buddy sneak backstage to see "THE FANTASTIC Hermaphrodite" and the "funny little old Monkey Man," whom they try to buy a ale. But hazard waits on the fringe of the innocent time. When C.K.'s brother, Big Nail, appears after escaping from a chain gang, an inevitable and violent confrontation between your brothers is set in movement - a confrontation that will indicate the end of Harold's youth.This inside view of Southern's root base in Alvarado, Texas, where pastoral innocence belied an undercurrent of racism and violence, brings this book of an boy's transition to maturity vividly alive.
