Insightful, poignant, and inspiring-with touches of humor throughout- The Train chronicles the coming-of-age of a young man living on the Gulf Coast of Alabama during the 1950s and 1960s. It is the story of how one thoughtful boy-gradually forged "as a Damascene smith might have shaped a blade" by his father, his heroes, his family, and his friends-becomes "a harder, stronger substance that will take a keener edge." This debut novel by Tony Jordan,...