The Lost Saints of Tennessee

by Amy Franklin-Willis

Book Overview

With enormous heart and dazzling agility, Amy Franklin-Willis expertly mines the fault lines in one Southern working-class family. Driven by the soulful voices of forty-two-year-old Ezekiel Cooper and his mother, Lillian, The Lost Saints of Tennessee journeys from the 1940s to 1980s as it follows Zeke's evolution from anointed son, to honorable sibling, to unhinged middle-aged man. After Zeke loses his twin brother in a mysterious drowning and his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802120059
• ISBN13: 9780802120052
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A great story

Loved this book from the moment I opened it until the end. Just a wonderful story that had me crying a few times throughout. I couldn't wait to see something else this author had written but this is the one and only I'm afraid.