Walter Brimm is a financial advisor in his mid-thirties, husband to Gee, a university professor, and father to a seven-year-old daughter, Rea. His life appears nearly perfect, but this proves an illusion as slowly his world unravels; his actions and reactions to specific events cost him his job, his family, and his health. In search of redemption, Walter's personal journey provides a gripping story of intimate longing and a fallen man's brave attempt to reconcile all that has caused him to sabotage his happiness while answering questions seeded deep in his past.
First novel by a writer who in the 15 plus years since has become a central figure, despite the fact that he doesn't like going out in the world much. There might be some rough patches in this book, but the drive and necessity of the process take us past all that easily. Here's a little thing I wrote back in the day: