The Young Oaks is an American epic. Spanning the Twentieth Century, bringing to life generations of living characters, all in a world so real you can taste it. Can a man bring himself back from the abyss? Can a woman hold together her family with her love and her will? Can a lost young man find redemption? Read this book, hilarious, violent, tragic - the first of a duology- and you will want to come home again, to laugh and to cry with the characters you have grown to love, to share the lives you have seen unfold.