Taft
By Ann Patchett
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060540760, 256pp.)
Publication Date: March 2003
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (August 16, 2007), Paperback (April 1999), Mass Market Paperback (August 1995)
Categories: Literary
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Description
John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft -- Fay and Carl's dead father -- and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met. But his sympathies for these lost souls soon take him down a twisting path into the lives of strangers...
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