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.
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