num_pages: 246
description: John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft -- Fay and Carl's dead father -- and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met. But his sympathies for these lost souls soon take him down a twisting path into the lives of strangers...
language: English
title: Taft
titlecomplete: Taft
characters: John Nickel
genres: Relationships, Music, Southern, Race, Novels, Audiobook, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 9189
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
publisher: Harpperen