In " Proust & the Squid", Maryanne Wolf explores our brains' near-miraculous ability to arrange & re-arrange themselves
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The year is 1952, & E. F. Bloodworth has returned to his home
- a forgotten corner of Tennessee
- after twenty years of roaming to find the three sons he abandoned are grown & angry: Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is obsessed with hunting down his wife's lover, & Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mother's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, can see beyond all the hatred & strife & through the love of Raven Lee, a beauty from another town, he finds the courage to reject his family's curse.