| Author/Contributor(s): | Drury, Tom |
| Publisher: | Grove Press |
| Date: | 05/21/2013 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
"A beguiling novel . . . perceptive and captivating."--"The New York Times"
"Startling and utterly original."--"Newsday "
In this mesmerizing novel, Tom Drury once again journeys to the quiet Midwest to spend an action-packed October weekend in the lives of a precarious family whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles, an heirloom shotgun; for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew; for their young son, Micah, a knowledge of the scope and reliability of his world, aided by prowling the empty town at night; and for Joan's daughter, Lyris, a stable foot from which to begin to grow up.
Sometimes together, sometimes crucially apart, father, mother, son, and daughter move through a series of vivid encounters that demonstrate how even the most provisional family can endure in its own particular way.