Small Town Odds

A lovable screw-up and underachiever living in the small town of Pinely, West Virginia, Eric Mercer spends his life as a part-time bartender at the American Legion, assistant mortician, and father to his beloved five-year-old daughter, but his life is turned upside down by the return of his lost love in the same week as the town prepares for the high-school football team's Big Game. A first novel. Reprint.