ISBN-13: 9780099560937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str.
In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again.