Dirt

by David Vann

Book Overview

The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house surrounded by a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped off to a nursing home. Galen and his mother survive on the family's trust fund--old money that his aunt, Helen, and seventeen-year-old cousin, Jennifer,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062121030
• ISBN13: 9780062121035
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"