Description
During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. The next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child’s father, Truman, with “teeth as rotten as his soul,” drives his battered car along the same paths. Met with tremendous acclaim when first published in 1990, A Good Baby is widely considered among Rooke’s best novels.
PRAISE FOR LEON ROOKE & A GOOD BABY
“Rooke is one of the great post-Faulkner southern prose stylists … who breaks the rules, makes up new rules, fractures and twists the story form with breathtaking aplomb, while communicating a generosity of spirit and ‘joie de vivre’ that is endlessly attractive.”—Globe & Mail
“A master … every word in [A Good Baby] becomes something other-than-it was.”—Washington Post
“Rooke has written a story in which everything is done, told and thought in an exuberant white heat … a backwoods Valhalla in which everyone is a god, demigod or devil, with larger-than-life passions and idiosyncrasies.”—Los Angeles Times
“Grim and raw and hilarious.”—The New York Times
