A gritty, odder-than-life novel about family, baseball, God and ‘gator hunting, Rat Palms is a story of a southern family like no other. Young Toadfish Marster, witness to Marster history and lore as well as heir to the salt-stained dock from which he observes the world, feels the weight of family on his shoulders. Investigating the skeletons of small, furry animals under the church while he’s supposed to be at chapel, Toadfish makes a fatal and near mortal error: he laughs when he’s caught, which lands him in the unforgiving hands of the Benedictine brothers who give him a pennance he’s not likely to forget.

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