"The photo of Charlie I love to look at, the one I have on my living room wall, is more honest. He is wearing ragged overalls, faded to gray, the legs specked with what seems to be fish blood, and he is prison-camp thin. In one big hand, strong fingers hook through its gills, is a catfish three feet long, its head as broad as a bull calf.

"A poor man winning."

 

--from AVA'S MAN