The grace of Jake

"Ex-inmate and musician, Jake Haynes, steals a car and travels to rural Arkansas hell bent on exacting revenge on his father, Henry, who abandoned him, but his plan begins to unravel as he discovers a complicated family history among the cotton fields and gospel churches. Through help of locals like Alvah and Maurice and finally through a forbidden romance with Nicole, he comes to understand the compexities of family and the virtue of forgiveness"--Back cover.