Kinfolk

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Publisher: Harper Muse
ISBN: 9781400235636
Type: paperback

Sometimes it?s the most unlikely meetings that give us life?s greatest gifts.

1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or ?Nub,? has spent his whole life listening to those he loves tell him he?s no good?first his ex-wife, now his always-disapproving daughter. Sure, his escapades have made him, along with his cousin and perennial sidekick, Benny, just a smidge too familiar with small-town law enforcement, but he?s never harmed anyone?except perhaps himself.

Nub never meant to change his ways, but when he and fifteen-year-old Waffle House waitress Minnie form an unlikely friendship, he realizes for the first time that there may be some good in him after all. Six-foot-five Minnie has been dealt a full deck of bad luck?her father is a convicted murderer serving a life sentence, her mother is dead and buried, and she has a Grand Ole Opry?worthy singing voice with no place to perform. Oh, and there?s the small fact that she?s unexpectedly pregnant, courtesy of a no-good high-school boy.

Gradually, Nub realizes the gift he?s been given: a second chance to make a difference.

Beloved Southern writer Sean Dietrich, also known as Sean of the South, once again brings people and places to life in this lyrical song-turned-story about found family, second chances, country music, and the poignant power of love and forgiveness.

• Heartwarming Southern fiction from Sean of the South
• Stand-alone novel
• Includes discussion questions for book clubs
• Also by Sean Dietrich: The Incredible Winston Browne, Stars of Alabama, and You Are My Sunshine