Winner of the Chatauqua South Award for FictionOut of the shotgun houses and deep shaded porches of a west Florida mill town comes this extraordinary novel of love and redemption as told by Gabriel Catts. On the eve of his fortieth birthday Gabe attempts to reconcile a family shattered by his betrayal of his older brother Michael. As Gabe contends with a host of personal demons he recounts his lifelong love for his brothers wife Myra whose own demons threaten to overwhelm all three of them. Circumstance and passion push them beyond the moral boundaries of their closeknit community in this intimate view of a Southern family.The story told in My Brother Michael is retold in Myra Sims Janis Owens second novel from Myras point of view