I Am the Light of This World

✍ Scribed by Michael Parker

• Book ID: 110848754
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 143 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781643753454

✦ Synopsis

Acclaimed author Michael Parker tells the searing and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changes the course of a young man's life.
In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl--a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words--meets Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two days later, Earl is being questioned by the police about Tina's disappearance and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can't remember what happened in Austin, and with little financial support from his working-class family, he is sentenced for a crime he did not commit.
Forty years later, Earl...