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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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780143115786
  • ISBN-10: 0143115782
  • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: June 2009
  • Dimensions: 7.74 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
  • Page Count: 224
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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