Paul Cain

One Short of a Dozen Paul Cain

This novel is about Frank Grant, the seventh son and the eleventh child, of Michael and Mary Grant. He was just one short of a dozen. And to coin a phrase, his life was pretty much the same. "A day late and a dollar short" Being born four years prior to America entering the Second World War, when his mother was in her mid forties, and during the nineteen thirty-seven flood that devastated Louisville, Kentucky. About Franks father being killed walking home from work, and afterwards, losing their home, and living in abandoned houses with hardly enough to eat or decent clothes to wear to school. Overcoming the ridicule from the other kids because of his hand-me-down clothes and being too small for his age. Walk with Frank through his troubled adolescent years, and early manhood. Experience with him the indifference of his brothers, and the betrayal of his friends. The times spent running as a fugitive, the hard times as an inmate and finally reuniting with the love of his life.