The author's third novel, following "Clara's Heart" and "A Warmer Season". An unsupervised infant is drowned and seven-year-old Billy, the last person to see him alive, is blamed. Billy's parents try to protect his innocence, but the tragedy widens the cracks in their already shaky marriage.
- ISBN10 0385265050
- ISBN13 9780385265058
- Publish Date 6 September 1989 (first published 31 August 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Doubleday Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 307
- Language English