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Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower who has seen better days and right now ekes out a living at odd jobs, metes Tige, an 11-year-old black boy about to kill himself because his mother has just died. With nowhere else to stay, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close (if sometimes stormy) relationship which is good for both of them. Marvin watns to adopt Tige but knows that he is too poor to give him a good home, as becomes painfully clear when Tige catches pneumonia.
Then he discovers who Tiges father is: a rich suburbanite who doesnt even know that Tige exists.
Should he, and can he, give up the boy he loves, and who loves him, in favor of a stranger with the rgiht genes and bank balance but who doesnt care?
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