The baker's boy
Subtitle: a novel
By: Barry Kitterman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780870745201
Subjects: Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Fiction.; Midlife crisis -- Fiction.; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Set in Central America and in Middle Tennessee, The Baker's Boy gives us two intertwined stories: In the first, Tanner Johnson, nearing midlife, has left his pregnant wife and taken a job as a baker, working nights, trying to avoid a shadowy presence that haunts him from the past. In the second, Tanner relives his painful experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Belize, where he taught at a boys' reform school nearly a quarter century ago. Haunted by the past, he struggles to find the courage to accept his role as a husband and prospective father.