Let's Eat and Talk About Ironweed by William Kennedy

Let's eat and talk about Ironweed by William Kennedy. From Goodreads: Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike. He ran away again after accidentally -- and fatally -- dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present.
This book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1984, as well as a National Book Critics Circle Award. It was also adapted into a film in 1987 (starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson). It is the third book in the Albany Cycle, but there is no need to have read the others. This one is short and funny. Join us!