


A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico threatening the Coastal town of Bois Sauvage Mississippi and esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the &may. Each and her three brothers are stocking food, but them isn't much to save, I allay, Esch can't keep down whit food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realised that', she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetali is sneaking scraps for his prized' pit bulPs new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall. and junior try to stake their claim in it family long on child's play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up to face another day.
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