"Drury is a truly great writer."--Esquire"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.
- ISBN10 1322360529
- ISBN13 9781322360522
- Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published 1 May 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Grove/Atlantic
- Format eBook
- Language English