Mississippi teenager Noel Weatherspoon is many things: an unwilling clairvoyant, a ghost-seeing insomniac, a wannabe erotic photographer, a would-be baseball star, a lamentable virgin who becomes an older woman's sex toy, and a never-accused somnambulant mercy-killer.
Meet Mississippi teenager Noel Weatherspoon: ghost-seeing insomniac, endearing dopehead, wanna-be erotic photographer, and possible Baptist faith healer. Noel, who prefers The Exorcist to Ecclesiastes, must navigate a world of Bible-thumpers, born-again Christians, and a stepfather who bears an uncanny resemblance to Billy Graham. Darkly comic and lyrically moving, Rides of the Midway introduces a formidable talent in contemporary fiction.