Author

Publication

2005 - Picador, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

48,750 words, Guess

Page Count

195 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads770532
  • LibraryThing706209

Classifications

  • DDC813.6
  • LCCPS3563.C3862 B57 2005

Description

The son of an unknown father and an ostracized mother, and the next of kin in a long line of bastard relatives, nine-year-old Loren Garland lives a life of subtle mystery beneath the shadow of an East Tennessee mountain. It is on his family's broken-down estate that Loren's imagination grows, and with it, the extraordinary voice of "Bitter Milk," a young boy named Luther who may be Loren's imaginary friend, his conscience, or his evil twin. And yet outside the puzzle of Loren's brain, there are the darker goings-on of his family his mother who wishes she were a man, his new uncle who plans to develop the Garland land into real estate, and his withered grandfather who holds the clan together through truculence and fear. When Loren's mother disappears, he must set out on a quest of his own devising, tossing aside the trappings of youth in order to discover the truth of the world."

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

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