Larger	Taft Author: Ann Patchett
	Book Information Publisher: Perennial Book Type: Paperback Rating: 12 ISBN-13: 9780060540760 - ISBN-10: 0060540761 Publication Date: 3/18/2003 Pages: 256 Book Reviews

John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft -- Fay and Carl's dead father -- and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met. But his sympathies for these lost souls soon take him down a twisting path into the lives of strangers...