Jim Glass

Jim the Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Tony Earley, published by Little, Brown and Co. in 2000. It details a year in the life of Jim Glass, who lives, with his mother and three uncles, in the small fictional town of Aliceville, North Carolina. It is about a boy in a rural town who never really knew how vast the world actually was or how many people there were.

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