In August of 1977, Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, died. Samuel's mother cried, and Samuel went to his room to be alone. Thus begins the first paragraph of Samuel's Angel. Twelve year old Samuel Jordan is a boy who lives in a shell partly of his own creation, and partly the manufacture of his lonely, isolated childhood in the mountains and fields of Virginia and Western Montana. Although Samuel is close to his brothers and sisters, he is...