Book description
Harlow tells the story of eighteen-year-old Leslie Somers, who trudges his way through the dark Louisiana backwoods one winter in search of his father. As he walks through the woods, Leslie thinks of the other male role models in his life: the men who took him hunting and fishing, the…
Why read it?
1 author picked Harlow as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book because it nearly made me miss my flight. I bought it after hearing the author at a conference in Baton Rouge and started it at the airport. My mistake. I was sucked in by the story, told in sumptuous, gorgeous prose, about a boy looking for the father he never knew.
But I found its true radiance in the unexpected discoveries he makes about the man who sired him and, of course, himself. (I finished it on a connecting flight late that night out of Houston. Totally worth it).
From Neil's list on families on the brink, or over the edge.
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