Description

Together with his trademark emotional heft and storytelling ability, best-selling author Chris Bohjalian provides this novel concerning the development of the pressures that pull it aside, and an unusual family–the connections that join it. 2 yrs after their twin children died super fast flood, Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont state trooper and his partner, consume a foster child. His name is Alfred; he's Africanamerican and 10 years old. And he's passed through a lot of indifferent households that he can’t think that his new one can last.