"Langston Braverman does not come home to Haddington, Indiana, because she is searching for a simpler life. Having just walked out of her Ph.D. oral exams and abandoned the remains of a disastrous affair, she has retreated to her parents' attic to nurse a bruised heart and maybe even write a great American novel. It does not escape her attention that the town is abuzz with the death of her childhood friend, Alice, but not even this morsel of intrigue can rouse Langston from her self-imposed existential dilemma." -- Jacket.
- ISBN10 0385499833
- ISBN13 9780385499835
- Publish Date 18 June 2002 (first published 1 January 2002)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 2 February 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Edition Lst ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 257
- Language English