During the course of three days and nights of fierce midwestern winter, Ulysses Turner Fraser, poet, father, and charismatic teacher, reconsiders the tragedy of his life, in a story narrated by his younger son, Bryce...
Bryce Fraser, a reporter haunted by his father's suicide seven years before, Sylvia Stenmark, the troubled young women Bryce desires, and Carla, Bryce's friend, are drawn together in a triangle that will test the bonds of their friendship....