Faith, family, and the weight of history intersect in this remarkable debut from a rising literary talent

A cold, gray Sunday dawns on New York City to find Paul Metzger trudging through the winter streets to visit his past. He goes first to see his estranged, decades-older half-brother; then his dying father, whose notorious early life still haunts his children; and finally the ex-wife he cannot help but continue to love. But a fourth encounter-violent, unexpected-sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change Paul's life, as well as the family he's struggled so long to understand.

Ian MacKenzie's stirring and lyrical debut is a story of a family inalterably fractured by its past, of a man who refuses to believe that what is done cannot be undone, and of a world that insists-catastrophically, in the end-otherwise.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/01/2009
ISBN: 9780143115786
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/11/2009 pg. 35
Booklist 07/01/2009 pg. 29