Meely LeBauve - Ken Wells

http://www.powells.com/biblio/7-037575816x-0: The story of a 15-year old boy growing up in the Louisiana Bayou. This is a coming of age book about a boy with no mother, and an alcoholic gator-hunter of a father always on the run from the law. It seemed like something a teenage boy would enjoy reading, very quick and funny - in the same vein as Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Old School.