Haunted by a secret tragedy Edwin son of the richest family in a small Southern town fights to overcome his addiction to morphine and face the truth that his parents have worked to obscure.amp160This timeless debut novel of master Southern storyteller Michael Parker takes readers to a small Southern town in the 1950s where Edwin Keane suffers from the lasting effects of a horrible accidenta broken back a morphine addiction and a town of enabling eccentrics. Redemption comes in the form of a young womanamp8212the daughter of a poor farmeramp8212and a couple of the towns most interesting outcasts. Parker is an amazing writer. His narrative style is both lyrical and economical making this novel a true Southern gothic classic.