Publisher Description
In 1948, a mysterious and charismatic man arrives in a small Virginia town carrying two suitcases—one contains his worldly possessions, the other is full of money. He soon inserts himself into the town’s daily life, taking a job in the local butcher shop and befriending the owner and his wife and their son. But the passion that develops between the man and the wife of the town’s wealthiest citizen sets in motion a series of events that not only upset the quiet town but threaten to destroy both him and the woman.
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“[An] unforgettable
story of lost and displaced souls in search of identity, acceptance and
belonging…Goolrick (A Reliable Wife) masterfully ratchets up the tension, while
evocative sensory detail and spiritual overtones infuse the emotional landscape
of a powerful, climactic novel that seeks to define and explore the meaning of
love and goodness.”
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Shelf Awareness
About Robert Goolrick
Robert Goolrick is the author of The
End of the World as We Know It, a
memoir, and the #1 New York Times bestselling
novel A Reliable Wife, as well as another novel. He lives in
Virginia.
About Norman Dietz
Norman Dietz is a writer, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator. He has won numerous Earphones Awards and was named one of the fifty “Best Voices of the Century” by AudioFile magazine. He and his late wife, Sandra, transformed an abandoned ice-cream parlor into a playhouse, which served “the world’s best hot fudge sundaes” before and after performances. The founder of Theatre in the Works, he lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.