After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven year old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.

Reeling from the news of his sister’s suicide, Beau McCammon returns home to his family after a long absence. His father, who has just barely won another term as senator,…

Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to…