Country hardball
By: Steve Weddle
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781440570803; 9781440570810
Subjects: Country life; Ex-convicts; Working class; Fiction
Description: After more than a decade spent in and out of juvenile detention, halfway houses, and jail, Roy Alison returns to his rural hometown determined to do better, to be better. But what he finds is a working-class community devastated by the economic downturn--a town without anything to hold onto but the past. Staying with his grandmother, Roy discovers a family history of good intentions and bad choices, of making do without much chance of doing better. Around him, families lose their sons to war, hunting accidents, drugs. And Roy, along with the town, falls into old patterns established