The Hag by Marc Eliot was such an interesting book! Not too hard, because Merle Haggard was certainly an interesting guy!! 

Mr. Eliot takes you thru Merles life from beginning to end, the good and the bad and everything in between. Definitely the definitive work on Merle and a must read by all country music fans. 

I enjoyed reading about a man I knew very little about. Some parts were hard to read ( about the Merle, not the writer) but that is what a good book should do.... Tell all the good, bad and the ugly. You can tell the writer did his research!

Thank you to Netgalley and Hachette Books for the eARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.