"Grim and raw and hilarious."—The New York Times
During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. Next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child's father, Truman, with "teeth as rotten as his soul," drives his battered car along the same paths.
Leon Rooke is a novelist, short story writer, editor, and critic. He has published twenty-eight books, nearly three hundred short stories, and is the recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature.
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Praise for Leon Rooke and A Good Baby
"Rooke is one of the great post-Faulkner southern prose stylists ... who breaks the rules, makes up new rules, fractures and twists the story form with breathtaking aplomb, while communicating a generosity of spirit and 'joie de vivre' that is endlessly attractive."—GLOBE & MAIL
"A master ... every word in [A Good Baby] becomes something other-than-it was."—WASHINGTON POST
"Rooke has written a story in which everything is done, told and thought in an exuberant white heat ... a backwoods Valhalla in which everyone is a god, demigod or devil, with larger-than-life passions and idiosyncrasies."—LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Grim and raw and hilarious."—THE NEW YORK TIMES
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