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Presents a story about growing up in rural Mississippi's working class.

Presents a gritty autobiography of a firefighter.

Down in Memphis and northern Mississippi, some wildly diverse people are looking for love--but not necessarily in all the right places.

"Larry Brown wrote the way the best singers sing: with honesty, grit, and the kind of raw emotion that stabs you right in the heart. He was a singular American treasure." -Tim McGraw.