Description: As Jess and his wife Alma begin their life together in a nameless 1950s Pacific Northwest town, they unhesitatingly descend, with defiant passivity, into every major and minor pitfall that family life and bleak social conformity can offer-from adultery and petty shoplifting to being pressured by neighbors to dig a hole for a "Heritage Pole."
Brief description: T. R. HEALY was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of three novels, ANCIENT SHADOWS, CAUGHT IN THE COLD SNOWS, and RED WEATHER, and a collection of stories, PARTIAL SURVIVORS.