A novel about supermarkets and democracy.
Brothers Ray and Patrick Markham live in Pennacook, Massachusetts, a despairing former mill town plagued by feral boars.
It's the type of place where streets are named for scoundrel governors and lesser Monopoly properties, where even Dr.
Chong, the high-school principal, can't bear to mingle with the locals in her free time.
Ray serves as Patrick's legal guardian.
He spends his days on the Bounty Bag deli line, making a mean meatball sandwich, c.
