Title: The book of hard things
Description: Cuzzy Gage, a small-town boy living in a dead-end, poverty-stricken town, meets Tracy Edwards, an ethnomusicologist hoping to chronicle the life of his friend, and the two strangers bond while sifting through the deceased man's papers.
Subjects: Teenage boys, Male friendship, Executors and administrators, Violence, Fiction, Mountain life, Fiction, general