Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbor, Fenton Johnson's landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole.
Foreword by Pam Houston
High Bridge
Back Where She Came From
Little Deaths
All Fall Down
The Way Things Will Always Be
Cowboys
Guilt
Scissors, Paper, Rock
Some Kind of Family
Where Do We Come From, What Are We, Where Are We Going?
Miss Camilla Speaks
Acknowledgments
Fenton Johnson is the author of award-winning fiction and literary nonfiction, including the novels Scissors, Paper, Rock and The Man Who Loved Birds, as well as Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey among Christian and Buddhist Monks and Geography of the Heart: A Memoir. He is associate professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona, USA and teaches in the MFA program at Spalding University in Louisville.
