Will Baggett, TV weatherman, is probably the biggest celebrity in Raleigh, North Carolina, and he sure does like that "Yo, Will, what's the weather?" people call out, echoing his station's promotion campaign. With a nice house, a son in medical school, and a wife who's become one of the top brokers stoking the heedless real estate rush in north Raleigh, Will has the perfect life. But overnight a nasty conglomerate buys his station and throws him out, he's arrested for running a red light, he badly injures his knee, and he begins to see both that his marriage is in danger of crumbling, and that his son doesn't like him much. Then the past he thought he didn't have comes calling, in the person of his cousin Wingfoot Baggett, who collects a bewildered Will for some R&amp;R back home, on the banks of the Cape Fear River. How Will comes to terms with his history, sorts out his legal dilemmas, reinvents himself, gets to know his son, and maybe, just maybe, reconciles with his wife, is the subject of Bob Inman's graceful, comic, and poignant novel. In a larger sense, this is also a novel about how the New South, with its booming economy and newly minted cities, is stamping out the Old South, losing in the process a sense of tradition and identity.

Captain Saturday: A Novel

Inman, Robert

Literature & Fiction

Back Bay Books

When a nasty conglomerate buys his station and tosses him out, TV weatherman Will Bagget's seemingly perfect life collapses around him until Wingfoot Bagget, a long-lost cousin, arrives on his doorstep and takes him back to the New South, where Will must come to terms with his history in order to solve all the problems in his life. 18,000 first printing.

Little,Brown

Cantankerous Jake Tibbetts, editor of the town newspaper, struggles to find meaning in a world he thought he understood, when the Second World War shakes the lives of everyone in his small Southern community

Home Fires Burning: A Novel

United States

Over the course of the summer of 1970, 16-year-old Trout Moseley wrestles with powerful ancestral traditions as he struggles to forge his own identity in the Georgia town than bears his family name.

Dairy Queen Days: A Novel

Coming of age in the small Southern town that bears his family name, Trout Mosley struggles to free himself from the burdens of his mentally disturbed mother and his volatile, obese, Methodist preacher father

Dairy Queen Days

Little,Brown & Co

Home Fires Burning

Widow Bright Birdsong, a strong old woman, reflects back on her life, defined by her roles of daughter, wife, and mother, as she faces a family crisis, racial conflict, and a chance to right old wrongs

Old Dogs and Children

Old Dogs and Children: A Novel

Literary

Little, Brown & Company: Back Bay Books

Cantankerous Jake Tibbetts, editor of the town newspaper, struggles to find meaning in a world he thought he understood, when the Second World War shakes the lives of everyone in his small Southern community

Ballantine Books

Home Fires Burning (Abacus Books)

Ballantine

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Captain Saturday: A Novel

Captain Saturday: A Novel

Home Fires Burning: A Novel

Dairy Queen Days: A Novel

Dairy Queen Days

Home Fires Burning

Old Dogs and Children

Old Dogs and Children: A Novel

Home Fires Burning

Home Fires Burning (Abacus Books)