Persona Non Propria:
the bookstore

When quiet, introspective Jude moves to the faded rust-belt town of Veddersburgh, New York, he meets Tommy “Big T” Goodspeed, the charismatic and reckless heir to a declining local grocery empire. Tommy talks fast and lives faster, masking deeper fractures beneath his charm and intelligence. From youthful adventures to turbulent struggles with loss and self-destruction, Jude desperately tries to anchor Tommy’s spiral...until tragedy finally pushes them apart. the big T, a poignant modern American novel by Clancy Steadwell, explores friendship, masculinity, privilege, and the devastating power of addiction—woven through the double helix of a friendship too deep and complicated to ever forget.