The Memory of Old Jack: A Novel

In the third novel in the beloved Port William series, Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beautiful September day in his home since birth, remembering

Sharing with readers the most searing moments of Old Jack’s life, particularly his debt to his sister Nancy and her husband Ben Feltner, we learn together what Old Jack’s model of what honorable manhood and strength might be.

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