The first is high school teacher Mia Summerton, who makes a note to avoid the rude drunk she’s got for a neighbor and the second is five-year-old Natasha, Frisco’s niece, who has been brought to live with him by his no-good, alcoholic sister while she goes to detox. He doesn’t want to teach, as has been suggested to him, he is pushing so hard in his therapy sessions that he’s doing himself more harm than good, and if he can’t be Frisco, he can only be Alan, and Alan, he believes, is a nobody.Īgainst this unwavering wall of despair and pain come two forces. His leg is shot, and with it, his life as a U.S. Life, as he knows it, is over for soon-to-be-former Navy Lt.
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He currently edits the Histories of Capitalism and the Environment book series at West Virginia University Press. Norton, 2015) and Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future (W. He is also the award-winning author of two books, Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism (W. |