To Carthage We Came

All Matt Turner wants is to be somethin'...and for his life to make sense.Carthage looks like the right place for twenty-four-year-old Matt Turner to make a fresh start in life with his wife, Lila Jean, brother, L-C, grandfather Piney, and mother, Lottie May. In the good-size town he feels elevated from the hick southern village where his family and friends make a living from seasonal migratory work-picking peaches, beans, and sweet corn all over the fruit-growing parts of the Midwest. Believing that a car will kick-start his freedom, Matt buys an old Mercury, not realizing that deals in cars-and in life-aren't always what you think they are. His simple purchase not only will threaten everything his family stands for, it just might tear them apart....A poignant peek into the heart of a migrant worker who longs for a recreated life. By Edward Vasta (Ph.D., Stanford, professor for 40 years at Notre Dame), also the author of Love and Redemption.