The Risk Pool

"THE RISK POOL is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, Mohawk's gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. For when Sam returns to Mohawk, Ned's quiet life is changed forever; his days are spent shuttling back and fourth between Sam's ramshackle apartment and his mother Jenny's dream-lost world. Over the next two decades, Ned struggles to win his fathers affections while avoiding his sins. But how does a son please a father whose disregard for all rules of safety, decorum and common sense have landed him at the very bottom of the auto insurance risk pool? "