When Elaine Collier, an antiques restorer, is hired by a wealthy man to eradicate from the family possessions all traces of his son's existence--a son who was killed in the Vietnam War--Elaine confronts her own and her mother's past
Walter D. Wetherell is the author of eleven previous works of fiction and nonfiction. He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two O. Henry Awards, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and, most recently, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Strauss Living Award. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire, with his wife and two children. His latest novel is A Century of November.