Captain Saturday: A Novel

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Will Baggett TV weatherman is probably the biggest celebrity in Raleigh North Carolina and he sure does like that "Yo Will whats the weather?" people call out echoing his stations promotion campaign. With a nice house a son in medical school and a wife whos become one of the top brokers stoking the heedless real estate rush in north Raleigh Will has the perfect life. But overnight a nasty conglomerate buys his station and throws him out hes arrested for running a red light he badly injures his knee and he begins to see both that his marriage is in danger of crumbling and that his son doesnt like him much. Then the past he thought he didnt have comes calling in the person of his cousin Wingfoot Baggett who collects a bewildered Will for some R&R back home on the banks of the Cape Fear River. How Will comes to terms with his history sorts out his legal dilemmas reinvents himself gets to know his son and maybe just maybe reconciles with his wife is the subject of Bob Inmans graceful comic and poignant novel. In a larger sense this is also a novel about how the New South with its booming economy and newly minted cities is stamping out the Old South losing in the process a sense of tradition and identity.