Mr. Was

Jack Lund figures a good day is when his dad''s too drunk to beat up his mom.

For Jack, Bogg''s End is the end. The end of the turbulent, see-saw years of watching his father go on the wagon and fall right back off gain. Once it took two years, but the inevitable inevitably happened. Now it''s just Jack and his mom starting over in the strange old house his grandfather left them.

But the rid...