Viewed from the perspective of each family member over a thirty-year span, a family of the 1950s--Daniel and Mary Ellen Slattery and their children--goes through changes of the heart as the fabric of their domestic life unravels...
This is a collection of stories about men of all ages including the tale of a German girl's nude midnight plunge which shakes an American widower out of suicidal grieving, fathers terrified of repeating the sins of their fathers and grandfathers hopi...