Glenda makes a meager living looking after the local cemetery and spends her time trying to keep Red amused and away from Shug, whom he loves to humiliate but whom she adores.
Red hates Shug but uses him to break into houses to steal drugs and anything else that can be sold. Told through the voice of an overweight 13-year-old boy named Shuggy Atkins, this is the story of Shug the one person who loves him, his mother Glenda and her boyfriend Red, a brutal and ignorant man. Penzler Pick, June 2001: This is Daniel Woodrell's third book set in the Ozarks and, like the other two, Give Us a Kiss and Tomato Red, it peels back the layers from lives already made bare by poverty and petty crime, exposing the reader to the raw everyday hopes and fears of the poor and the helpless.
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