Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1997. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's fourth novel - "Leroy Dearman is twelve, and he lives on a llama farm in Mississippi. Life is perfect. It's true that his grandfather just died in the attic and that wild dogs kill a baby llama now and then. . . But up to the day Uncle Harris moves in, life looks" just fine. Publisher's material and letter introducing the Lewis Nordan fan club laid in. Small format. 273 pp. ISBN: 1-565122208.