A girl walked into the bar. I was hunched over, trying to open a box of Dewar's without my knife.
Taft ~ by Ann Patchett, 1994, literary fiction (Tennessee), 273 pages
When John Nickel's lover takes away his son, Nickel is left only with his Beale Street bar in Memphis. He hires a young waitress named Fay Taft, who brings with her a desperate, dangerous brother, Carl, and the possibility of new intimacy. Nickel finds himself consumed with Fay and Carl's dead father — Taft — obsessing over and reconstructing the life of a man he never met. This story reminds us that our deepest instinct is to protect the people we love.
2 comments:
I've enjoyed every Ann Patchett book I've read. I think this might be an early book...
I have only read one Ann Patchett book, but I did like it. I think this one sounds good! I hope you have a great weekend, Bonnie!
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