: Ned encounters his uncle Simon, a former garbage man turned Nobel laureate poet, and eventually his elusive father, Henry.
After turning 18 and leaving witness protection, a devoutly Christian Ned sets out with a singular, grim purpose: to find and kill his father, whom he blames for his mother's life imprisonment. His journey is complicated by: Ned Rifle
: A brilliant, "troublesome" graduate student with a mysterious and unsettling connection to Henry's past. : Ned encounters his uncle Simon, a former