01614cam a2200301 i 4500 353928236 TxAuBib 20180813120000.0 081023s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008045681 9780385413053 038541305X TxAuBib rda Conroy, Pat. South of Broad : a novel / Pat Conroy. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2009] ©2009. 514 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee father; hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles and Starla Whitehead; socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend, Chadworth Rutledge X; and an ever-widening circle whose liaisons will ripple across two decades-from 1960s counterculture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. 20180813. Brothers Death Fiction. Charleston (S.C.) Fiction. Fiction.