This novel is largely set at Skully's Landing, where Amy takes care of the paralyzed Mr. Sansom and the crossdressing Cousin Randolph has a homoerotic relationship with the protagonist, whose best friend, the tomgirl Idabel Thompkins, is based on Harper Lee.
Near the end of this novel, the protagonist witnesses the donkey John Brown jump off a balcony and hang himself from his reins at the Cloud Hotel, whose former occupants inspire the drifter Little Sunshine to say the title phrase. One character in this novel, whose throat was slashed by Keg Brown after she married him at fourteen, is alternately called "Missouri" or "Zoo" and is the granddaughter of the 100-year-old Jesus Fever. Another character in this novel tells of how he fell in love with a Spanish woman named Dolores, but then fell in love with her lover, a Mexican boxer named Pepe Sanchez, leading him to shoot and paralyze Pepe's manager, the father of this novel's protagonist. This novel is largely set at Skully's Landing, where Amy takes care of the paralyzed Mr. Sansom and the crossdressing Cousin Randolph has a homoerotic relationship with the protagonist, whose best friend, the tomgirl Idabel Thompkins, is based on Harper Lee. For 10 points, Joel Knox is the protagonist of what first novel of Truman Capote?
Near the end of this novel, the protagonist witnesses the donkey John Brown jump off a balcony and hang himself from his reins at the Cloud Hotel, whose former occupants inspire the drifter Little Sunshine to say the title phrase.
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