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Everything's Jake
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Publisher: Ltpublishing
Published: Mar 25 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Elmwood, Tennessee, everyone knows everyone.
Faith is steady. Land is inherited. Reputations are earned slowly and kept carefully. When a man like Tom Reeves-attorney, scoutmaster, deacon, the judge's son-takes an interest in your boy, you feel grateful. You feel seen.
John Robinson is fighting to save his family's farm. Sarah Robinson knows something is wrong with her son but cannot name it. Jake is eleven years old, eager to belong, and learning that being chosen by the right people feels like opportunity.
It isn't.
Everything's Jake is a novel about the slow architecture of trust-how it is built, how it is used, and what it costs when the wrong person holds it.
Set against the quiet rhythms of rural Tennessee, it examines how ordinary goodness can coexist with extraordinary harm, and how the institutions we rely on to protect us sometimes protect only themselves.
In small communities, trust moves faster than doubt. And not all guidance reveals its cost at once.
For readers of Celeste Ng, Ron Rash, and Larry Brown.
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