Come Landfall: A Novel

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Come Landfall Also by Roy Hoffman Novels Almost Family Chicken Dreaming Corn Nonfiction Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations The University of Alabama Press • Tuscaloosa ROY HOFFMAN a novel COME LANDFALL Copyright © 2014 by Roy Hoffman The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Typeface: Scala Cover illustration: Distant Rain, Brad Roberston, acrylic on canvas, 48" x 48", 2012. Author photograph: Nancy Mosteller Hoffman Design: Michele Myatt Quinn ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hoffman, Roy, 1953– Come landfall : a novel / Roy Hoffman. pages cm ISBN 978-0-8173-1830-7 (trade cloth: alk. paper)—ISBN 978-08173 -8753-2 (ebook) 1. Hurricanes—Fiction. 2. Gulf Coast (Miss.)— Fiction. I. Title. PS3558.O34634C66 2014 813'.54—dc23 2013035972 In memory of My sister Sherrell who understood everyone’s story & My uncle, Major Roy Robinton, U.S. Marine Corps lost as a POW in World War II who never told his ...