A 1960s blue-collar family self-destructs as Floyd Franklin, an emotionally unstable man, turns the brunt of his dementia on his two daughters, after his wife, Ruth, abandons the home, leaving the girls unprotected. A first novel. 15,000 first printi...
Those lovelorn and weary travelers who find their way to the dead-end road otherwise known as Preacher's Lake, Maine, come expecting to take a break from their hectic, hard-to-make-sense of lives. Escape turns to discovery, then commitment as they fi...