Spring Hill Tennessee Author:Tom T. Hall Country-music songwriter Hall's tale chronicles the lives of brothers Phillip and Bill Zephries, raised in Spring Hill, Tennessee, by their grandmother and her black servant after their mother runs off to Detroit to find work and their father commits suicide. After the first chapter, an abrupt leap of 27 years brings the story to 1985, when ... more »General Motors has announced a plan to build a new plant in Spring Hill; the balance of the novel details the consequences of the brothers' decision to sell the family land: their grandmother's dislocation, their mother's return and their own foolish use of sudden wealth. None of the characters learns from his mistakes; at the end of the novel the story begins again, with another cycle of births and attempts to preserve Southern tradition.« less
Spring Hill Tenn is a fable for our times, a parable of the pain and progress that always with the new and unknown. A good story, kind of witty. Tom T. Hall is the author, a songwriter, recording artist and composer shows he has talent as a writer.