![]() ![]() Indeed, if you stuck a satellite dish on the front lawn, the story might be taking place in the New South rather than the older, bucolic one. ![]() Yet neither Jim nor his mother nor his three uncles-who have split the paternal role neatly among themselves since the death of Jim's father a decade earlier-are feeling much in the way of economic pain. The year is 1934, and like the rest of the country, Aliceville is feeling the pinch of the Great Depression. He returns to the same terrain in his first novel, Jim the Boy, setting this coming-of-age story in a remote North Carolina hamlet. Tony Earley made his debut with Here We Are in Paradise, a superbly understated collection of (mostly) small-town vignettes. Synopsis: Both delightful and wise, Jim the Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own. ![]()
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