Their son Eddie has disappeared, and Ells clings to the idea he’s joined the army, which has set up a training camp nearby for the area’s uneducated, unwashed, and unprepared young men who will fight in World War I. He stole the family’s pride and hope along with their cash. The previous year, Ells gave all the savings Eula had scraped together over the decades to a flim-flam man. If so, maybe they will finally have something to eat.Ī couple of states north, in southern Ohio, live the elderly farmer Ellsworth Fiddler and his wife Eula, also struggling. The wealthy landowner has promised that if they meet some impossible deadline, he will give them 10 laying hens. He’s working them practically to death in the swampy field they’re clearing near the Georgia-Alabama border. Written by Donald Ray Pollock - In the early 20th century, the three Jewett brothers are under the thumb of their crazily religious, impoverished failure of a father.
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