The FighterIn this brilliant novel set against the dark and desolate backdrop of the Mississippi Delta, a washed up bare knuckle fighter battles against decades of booze and drug abuse as he returns home to try and save all he has lost. The acres and acres of fertile soil, the two hundred year old antebellum house, all gone. And so is the woman who gave it to him. The foster mother who saved Jack Boucher from a childhood of abandonment now rests in a hospice.