In Decatur, Georgia, in the summer of 1947, a ten-year-old boy is growing up on Adair Street. He's playing baseball with the neighborhood kids, gobbling up breakfasts of bacon and biscuits, and sneaking into town to catch the latest John Wayne movie. He's also sorting out who he wants to become. In a world where the Bible and bigotry are sometimes overwhelming, and success is measured by the size of your front porch, how do you decide what's really important? Two women offer competing visions of an ideal character: a neighboring mother figure who is also more than a mother and the beguiling...
In Decatur, Georgia, in the summer of 1947, a ten-year-old boy is growing up on Adair Street. He's playing baseball with the neighborhood kids, gobbli...