In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-can Man; their mothers call them inside whenever he appears. When he is arrested for murder, only Ora knows what re- ally happened in the woods where Eddie lived. But truth is a fiekle thing, and a lie is self-perpetuating, Ora and her maid Blanehe soon fnd themselves in a web of lies that send an innocent man to prison for the rest of his life, Twenty-five years later, Ora sets out to tell the truth about the Pecan Man

ISBN: 9781483023014