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The acclaimed writer of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone earnings with a sexy new novel that illuminates the shadowed sides of present-day American tradition with surprising and memorable outcomes Stopped in an unusually modern day variation of limbo, the child in the middle of Russell Banks’s uncompromising and fairly complicated new novel should produce a life for herself in the aftermath of incarceration. Recognized in his new identification just whilst the Child, and on probation after doing time for a contact by having an underage girl, he's shackled to a GPS tracking system and forbidden to reside within 2,500 feet of anyplace kids may collect. The Little One occupies residence under a south California causeway, in a makeshift encampment with different convicted sex offenders, with nowhere else togo. Hardly beyond youth himself, the Little One, despite his offense, is in a variety of ways a caught by urges, simple and silly options he himself struggles to understand.