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John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft — Fay and Carl's dead father — and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met. But his sympathies for these lost souls soon take him down a twisting path into the lives of strangers.
Critical Praise:
— New York Times Book Review
"A moving emblem of fatherhood's rarely explored passion." — Los Angeles Times
"Patchett writes with remarkable conviction and attention to telling details." — Jane Smiley, Mirabella
"Absorbing . . . strikingly original." — Kirkus Reviews
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