It was always Magnolia. Only Magnolia would do... Bobby Jack Beaumont has been forgetting for as long as Magnolia has known him. It was easy to let him do it--nobody wanted to remember those things. Now he's out in the scrub by the railroad tracks, lost and empty. He's forgotten all of it--everything. Even Magnolia. If she reminds him, if she tells it just so... they can fix the past and he'll come home again. But not every bad thing can be fixed by telling a different story.