Suttree

: Suttree lives among a "community of outsiders"—thugs, drunks, and eccentrics—in a slum known as McAnally Flats. While he is often "smarter and wiser" than those around him, he chooses to remain in this state of self-imposed exile. Major Themes

The story follows , a man from a privileged background who has abandoned his family and educated life to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the outskirts of 1950s Knoxville. Suttree

: Suttree ekes out a living as a fisherman, selling his catch to local butchers. The river itself is a central character—polluted, filled with debris and the occasional corpse, and serving as an inversion of the "healing" nature found in classical literature. : Suttree lives among a "community of outsiders"—thugs,