"A compelling read from a writer for whom life is not an abstract notion but a quirkily real, always exactly rendered place where ordinary people can be touched by unexpected grace as they struggle to survive."
Sayers (The Distance Between Us, 1994, etc.) returns to limn the touchingly selfless descent into madness of a man beset by both demons and angels—in a perfectly pitched novel that moves from the author's fictional South Carolina town to New York.
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Sayers (Who Do You Love, 1991, etc.) once again heads back to Due East, the South Carolina coastal town that's ``generally ugly, same as any small town in America.'' For some it's important to get out of town in youth, and here's the story of what happens—or doesn't—when you do.
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