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The Fighter
Little, Brown. Mar. 2018. 256p. ISBN 9780316432344. $26;ebk. ISBN 9780316432337. F
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As a newborn, Jack Boucher was dumped into the foster care system; at the age of 12, he met Maryann, who raised him in a 200-year-old antebellum house in the Mississippi Delta. But when Jack turned 18, he moved out so he could box professionally—against his foster mother's advice. Twenty five years later, Jack is damaged by too many concussions from bare-knuckle fighting and is in debt to the queen of Delta vice, Big Momma Sweet. To cope with the many concussions, he takes illegal painkillers. One night when he is about to pay off his debt to Big Momma Sweet, he crashes his car and the money he owes her is stolen by an unlikely savior, Annette, from the "church of coincidence." Annette attempts to redeem Jack, but Jack must fight one last fight to save Maryann's ancestral home.
VERDICT Recipient of the 2014 Mississippi Author Award, Smith (Desperation Road) excels in this dark and violent Southern grit-lit thriller. Fans of James Lee Burke will delight in the strong sense of place in the Deep South, while fans of David Joy will appreciate the protagonist's inner turmoil.
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