Renowned author Timothy Schaffert's celebrated debut novel, reissued
here in an entirely new paperback edition, chronicles two sisters on the
cusp of womanhood as they struggle to understand their father's suicide
as well their mother's abandonment of them many years earlier. On
graduating from high school, the sisters are once again set adrift, this
time by their grandmother who leaves them for Florida. In order to
survive, and perhaps even thrive, on their path to adulthood, they must
learn to reconcile their pasts and discover how to depend upon
themselves as well as on each other.
In a story that rises out of the spare Nebraska landscape, Schaffert
delivers a redemptive tale about two young women searching for wholeness
and love.