A coming-of-age novel set in NORTHERN IRELAND
Run with the Horsemen
Location(s): Georgia
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 1930s
Porter Osborne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during the depression years. On a red-clay farm in Georgia he learns all there is to know about cotton chopping, hog killing, watermelon thumping, and mule handling. School provides a quick course in practical joking, schoolboy crushes, athletic glory, and clandestine sex. But it is Porter’s family – his genteel, patient mother, his swarm of cousins, his snuff-dipping grandmother, and, most of all, his beloved though flawed father – who teach Porter the painful truths about growing up strong enough to run with the horsemen.
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