8 best books of May: Amazon editors choose

5. "I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive," by Steve Earle

Musician and actor Steve Earle's debut novel tells the story of Doc Ebersole, an aging junkie and backroom abortionist, operating in the San Antonio of the 1960s. Doc is haunted by the ghost of his buddy Hank Williams, and perhaps in danger of being redeemed by Graciela, the lovely young Mexican whose wound he treats. Amazon editor Jason Kirk suggests that "adventuresome fiction readers will find much to love" in the "shocking, tender depths" of this novel.

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