A exquisitely paced book that showcases the trauma of an alcoholic son and an abandoned spinster sister. Brought together in the family home, they try to find ways to cope with their own failed lives and the fading life of their father, a retired minister.
This novel illustrates the strength of home as a touchstone in a family's life, a place filled, if not with people, than with the ties of memory and duty.
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