Publisher's Synopsis
In the Paradise Cafe, regular customers come and go, the owner keeps a watchful and increasingly jaded eye on the place, and the women who serve food and pour coffee day after day watch skinny Tommy Perdue grow from an infant into a young man. He's an odd one, that boy. Left mostly to his own devices, he's both troubled and in trouble. Because a culture in decline holds few options for an unskilled and unpolished kid such as Tommy Perdue, he learns to exploit whatever is readily available ... including addiction, including dubious compatriots, including crime. None of his choices are good ones. Tommy simply goes with the flow--and mostly what's flowing is a steady supply of Oxy. It's an all-too-common story in urban neighborhoods where working folks toil and wait with little hope of salvation or variation. Tommy Perdue is stuck, in more ways than one. With a deft touch and beautifully spare language, author Michael Henson captures and conveys the stark and difficult world of Tommy Perdue in this memorable and revealing morality tale straight out of 21st century America. (published by MotesBooks: www.MotesBooks.com)
