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Truman Capote's first novel is a daring dive into the mind of a sensitive youngster as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the spooky landscape of the deep South.Joel Knox is summoned to meet his father, who abandoned him at birth, when he is twelve years old. Joel's father, however, is nowhere to be found when he arrives at the crumbling estate in Skully's Landing. Instead, he encounters a glum stepmother who enjoys shooting birds, an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child, and a terrifying little girl named Idabel, who may offer him the closest thing to love he has ever experienced.