Description: In an eviscerating comic portrait of suburban despair, Winthrops debut novel captures the mysterious seasons of a mans inner and outer life--marriage, grief, existential confusion, and finally, love--and the human spirits insistent and sometimes incongruous motion toward grace.
Review Quotes: "Bittersweet. . . . Winthrop proves to be a bitingly intelligent writer." --The New York Times Book Review"Reads like a heartfelt collision of Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King and the Oscar-winning American Beauty. . . . Pitch-perfect first-person narration." --Pages"Wry . . . Winthrop portrays with poignant humor the characters and events in Hollis' anxiety-filled existence." --Chicago Tribune"Brimming with gentle wisdom." --Redbook