Ava's Man
Publisher: Vintage
Published: August 13, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780375724442
First sentence: Ava meet him at a box-lunch auction outside Gadsden, Alabama, when she was barely fifteen, when a skinny boy in freshly washed overalls stepped from the crowd of bidders, pointed to her and said, "I got one dollar, by God."