Ever since Pa hit him in the head with the two-by-four, Earl had lived with blinders on.
Raw, honest, and filled with heart, Earl, Honey recounts an extraordinary search for redemption amid the perilous world of the 1920s American South..
So begins a powerful coming-of-age tale about a shy, damaged boy who must overcome unimaginable personal tragedy - both as its victim and its perpetrator.
Everyone in the household will pay for their patriarch\'s crimes - no one more than Earl.
Unfortunately, his father\'s abhorrent actions are not done exacting a price.
When his father is prosecuted for the crime of incest, it feels like deliverance for Earl, his mother Lizzie Belle, and the entire Hahn family.
It takes him longer to make the connections others arrive at easily.
Since the day his father hit him in the head with a 2x4 of loblolly pine, he\'s struggled with a thickness in his brain.
Earl HAHN is slow, the last one to catch on to things.
It was his own brain that blinkered him.
Not real blinders, of course, because that would be foolish.
Ever since Pa hit him in the head with the two-by-four, Earl had lived with blinders on
