An endearing and brutally honest narrator hosts this ribald romp through the backwoods of the upper South and provides a challenging set of characters fresh from the backseat of an abandoned Ford Fairlane, with a jaw full of snuff and a gut full of cheap wine.

"The Gold Piano" tells the story of Emerson Wainwright, a young man whose idyllic life in a small North Carolina town is turned upside down after his father is caught on videotape in a homosexual act at the county hospital.
To escape from his hometown and its painful memories, Emerson enrolls at an under-funded historically black college a hundred miles away, attending on a minority grant. As the only white student living on campus, he struggles with his loneliness and his role as an outsider.
His relationship with his roommate, a black activist from Brooklyn, is challenged when...