Me voy con vosotros para siempre / I’m going with you forever

Jess s childhood is spent peacefully on a farm in the mountains of North Carolina with his parents and grandmother. Every so often his life is happily interrupted by visits from his eccentric relatives, such as his womanizing uncle Luden who sought fortune in California, his uncle Zeno and his endless stories, his volatile uncle Gurton and his impressive beard, the country singer Samantha Barefoot, and his uncle Runkin, who travels with his coffin in search of the perfect epitaph. But his life is also altered with the arrival of Johnson Gibbs, an orphaned teenager who the family hires as a farmhand, and who joins him in his mischief."La infancia de Jess transcurre apaciblemente junto a sus padres y su abuela en una granja de las montanas de Carolina del Norte. De vez en cuando su vida se ve alegremente alterada con las visitas de excentricos parientes como su mujeriego tio Luden que busco fortuna en California, su tio Zeno y sus cuentos interminables, su volatil tio Gurton y su impresionante barba, la cantante de country Samantha Barefoot y su tio Runkin, quien viajaba con su ataud buscando la frase perfecta para su epitafio. Pero su vida tambien es alterada con la llegada de Johnson Gibbs, un adolescente huerfano que contratan como bracero, a quien secundara de inmediato en sus travesuras. ""

Fred Chappell is an author and poet who was a longtime English professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His novels include ＂Dagon,＂ ＂Brighten the Corner Where You Are,＂ and ＂Shadow Box.＂