Description

A quick demise, a never-shipped postcard, and a longburied solution set the level for a luminous and heartbreakingly true book about lost people finding one anotherThe Darby-Jones boardinghouse in Ruby Falls, Ny, hosts Mona Jones and her child, Oneida, two loners and self-announced outcasts who've shaped a completely insular family device: the two of these and the three modern boarders residing in their property. But their little, peaceful life is upended when Arthur Rook turns up in the centre of a nervous breakdown, ruined by the death of his wife, carrying a red sneaker package containing all his wifeis souvenirs and souvenirs, and keeping a postcard from sixteen years back, resolved to Mona but never delivered. Gradually the contents of the container start to fit together to inform a tale--among a lost love, a strong friendship, and a secret that, if revealed, might alter anything that Mona, Arthur, and Oneida understand to be accurate. Or possibly the tales the container informs and the facts it brings alive may train everybody about love--how seriously it operates, how even if all appears lost, and how powerful it makes us, it brings us together how firmly.