A Simple Kind of Man is a novel of interlocking episodes detailing the lives of three generations of Alabama men named Douglas MacLemore: the first, an uneducated Depression-era farmer who is called to preach the Word of God; his son, "Junior," who rebels against his father by chasing after the secular pleasures of alcohol, violence, and women; and Junior's son "Dugz," a pierced and tattooed high school dropout who doesn't know what he wants, only that it is something that he cannot have. The stories are related through the eyes and in the voices of the MacLemore men, with each having his own uniquely distorted way of grappling with the triumphs and tragedies of life. Step inside their lives and witness the struggle involved in being A Simple Kind of Man...