Boy's Life

An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times –bestselling author of Swan Song . It’s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It’s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelve-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson. He’s certain he’s sensed spirits whispering in the churchyard. He’s heard of the weird bootleggers who lurk in th