Welding with Children
Tim Gautreaux
Picador
<p><b>A master storyteller's triumphant, moving collection about lost souls, found love, and rediscovered tradition</b></p><p>Tim Gautreaux returns to the form that won him his first fans, with tales of family, sin, and redemption: from a man who realizes his grandchildren are growing up without any sense of right or wrong, and he's to blame; to a camera repairman who uncovers a young woman's secret in the undeveloped film she brings him; to a one-armed hitch-hiker who changes the life of the man who gives her a ride.</p><p>Each one a small miracle of storytelling and compassion, these stories in <i>Welding with Children</i> are a joyous confirmation of Tim Gautreaux's rare and generous talent.</p>