Unseen Hands

Having never known or been told about his father, Thomas struggles to learn how to become a man in the uncertain and tentative years of the Reconstruction following the Civil War. His mother and grandmother show only marginal interest in training up a child. His instruction is taken up by others in his family, especially his paternal grandfather, Papaw Wes, a good and devout man who adores him. Thomas is bright, having excelled at the Maxwell Academy, polite, hard-working and honest, and he...