Ismail, a retired teacher living in a small Colombian village, soon finds himself caught up in drug wars and violence after guerrillas abduct his wife and threaten the town.
A story of black and white in the American South with Berenice Sadie Brown, a black cook who mothers the motherless Frankie Addams, a lonely over-imaginative Georgia girl.
While caring for his granddaughter Pixie, Skipper recounts the brutal memories of his life, which includes the suicides of his father, wife, and daughter; the murder of his son-in-law, and the tragedies he faced while at sea.
Contains a collection of poems from the Chinese writer Tu Fu, who lived from 712 to 770, altered the poetry of the High T'ang period, and opened up the range of acceptable material in Chinese poems.
