The Best People in the World: A Novel

Growing up on the banks of the Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky, seventeen-year-old Thomas feels trapped by the constraints surrounding him, until he falls for his new history teacher, Alice, a woman eight years his senior who becomes his first love, and meets Shiloh, the anarchistic town misfit who becomes his role model. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. 20,000 first printing.