Description

While people are celebrating Yankee Joe DiMaggios hitting streak and worrying about being drawn into World War II fourteenyearold Junior Bledsoe is dealing with his abusive fathers death and his cantankerous grandfather who lives with them Consumed by unanswered questions surrounding his fathers death Junior begrudgingly makes friends with a boy named Catfish who promises to help him find some answers But the road they take comes with trouble And borrowing the neighbors car late at night without permission is just the beginning In this gripping comingofage novel a boy with a difficult past courageously confronts this wrong and begins to heal and to forgive