"... far from being known to me, my closest familiar, my son, is now an unknown. One each visit to Daniel I travel toward this unknown; I do not know what I will find when I arrive and this alone makes the pain of these confrontations bearable."

A lyrical, atmospheric novel about grief and its subsequent trauma over the course of a life in its many different forms. Lohrey's prose flowed through me like a calming babbling brook - even though some of the subject matter was anything but calming. A slight tale about the numerous relationships we hold throughout life, yet big with intimate impact.