Jim the Boy

A fatherless ten-year-old boy comes of age in a Depression-era, southern farming community in this charming and humorous debut novel. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Rich and satisfying . . . A novel that perfectly captures the innocence and confusion and wonder of childhood.” — Chicago Tribune Hailed as one of those rare works with the power to enchant readers of all ages, this luminous novel tells the story of a boy growing up in a small North Carolina town during the Great Depressi