I Am One of You Forever

✍ Scribed by Fred Chappell

• Publisher: LSU Press;Lousiana State Univ. Press
• Year: 1985;1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 124 KB
• Edition: 9. print
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0807114103

✦ Synopsis

Wonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy's coming of age. Set in the hills and hollows of western North Carolina in the years around World War II, it tells of ten-year-old Jess and his family--father, mother, grandmother, foster brother, and an odd assortment of other relatives--who usher Jess into the adult world, with all its attendant joys and sorrows, knowledge and mystery.

Jess's father is feisty, restless, and fun-loving. His mother is straitlaced and serious but accepts with grace and good humor the antics of the men of the family, a trait she learned from her own mother. Johnson Gibbs is the orphaned teenager who comes to live with them on their mountain farm. Life on the laurel-covered mountain is isolated and at times difficult, but for Jess it is made rich and remarkable through his relationship with his father and, especially, Johnson Gibbs.

Visiting the farm from time to time is a gallery...