Ava’s Man-Fast Shipping

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling thatmade All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personalhistory of the Deep South.

This time he’s writing about his grandfather CharlieBundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on thepeople who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of anunlettered roofer who kept food on his family’s table through the worst of the GreatDepression; a moonshiner who drank exactly one pint for every gallon he sold; anunregenerate brawler, who could sit for hours with a baby in the crook of his arm.

In telling Charlie’s story, Bragg conjures up the backwoods hamlets of Georgiaand Alabama in the years when the roads were still dirt and real men never cussedin front of ladies. A masterly family chronicle and a human portrait so vivid youcan smell the cornbread and whiskey,
Ava’s Man is unforgettable.