Shaking the Sugar Tree
β Scribed by Wilgus, Nick
- Book ID
- 108501861
- Publisher
- Dreamspinner Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 634 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781627984881
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageousβand he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum wage job and barely manages to keep himself and his deaf son, Noah, more than a stoneβs throw away from Dumpster-diving.
Noah was a meth baby and has the birth defects to prove it. He sees how lonely his father is and tries to help him find a boyfriend while Wiley struggles to help Noah have a relationship with his incarcerated mother, who believes the best way to feed a child is with a slingshot. No wonder Noah becomes Wileyβs biggest supporter when Boston nurse Jackson Ledbetter walks past Wileyβs cash register and sets his sugar tree on fire.
Jackson falls like a wet mule wearing concrete boots for Wileyβs sense of humor. And while Wiley represents much of the best of the South, Jackson is hiding a secret that could threaten this new family in the making.
When North meets South, the cultural misunderstandings are many, but so are the laughs, and the tears, but, as they say down in Dixie, itβs all good.
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Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageousand he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum wage job and barely manages to keep himself and his deaf son, Noah, more than a stones thr