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In a New York Times Notable Book, the author of The Patron Saint of Liars introduces readers to John Nickel, an ex-jazz musician and Memphis bar owner, whose dearest wish is to become a good father. Reprint.

is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft, Fay and Carl's dead father, and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met. But his sympathies for these lost souls soon take him down a twisting path into the lives of strangers. . . .