Fried Mullet And Grits — Patrick D. Smith

Retired Ohioan, Alvin Binder, grieving from the recent death of his wife, is on a road trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida to sell the timeshare he and his late wife, Mary, visited every year. On an impulse, he drives off the beaten path, lured by the weather-beaten sign to the Turkey Creek Fish Camp. What he finds there not only changes the way he experiences Florida but unexpectedly nudges him on a path out of grief and toward a new life without Mary.Readers of Smith's novel, Forever Florida, may see glimpses of the character of Seth Thompson in this earlier work of Smith's and possibly a foreshadowing of some of the antics of Frog and Bonzo in A Land Remembered. Fried Mullet And Grits was written decades before Smith gained international fame as a writer; luckily his son found this jewel of a story in a file folder buried in Smith’s office and saved it for you to enjoy.