A boy’s account of growing up through the rituals of life on an ancestral farm in middle Georgia between the big wars. It is a rueful, humorous story of the people in one rural county, but the telling cuts so deep it breaks through to the universal. Reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Sawyer, and The Catcher in the Rye, Run With the Horsemen is the powerfully moving and delightfully endearing story of Porter Osborne Jr.’s journey to adulthood.

In this sequel to Run With the Horsemen, the redoubtable Porter Osborne, Jr., a little older and slightly more worldly, leaves home for college. The year is 1938, but the story is timeless.

Porter leaves the dusty security of his rural Georgia home—armed with the self-assurance of having been “Raised Right”—and goes off to Willingham University. Neither Porter nor the university will ever be the same again.