Doctor Jacques

"Dr. Jacques is a family physician in Austerity, a middling-sized town in the foothills of Appalachia, in the South Carolina Piedmont. His story, including the compelling tale of his love for the Russian-born Tatyana Sokolova, is a tumultuous and heartfelt one. Dr. Jacques is also a poet whose poetry tends to go to the core of the issues of race, religion, and prejudice that plague his religiously deluded and obsessed hometown."--Back cover.