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"I could never be a good father because I turned my back on being your son." Perhaps Teddy Mathison is right when he makes this heart-wrenching confession to his dying mother, but is it really too late? The touching and surprising answer unfolds in this richly layered, tender story of a man who is primed to go far in life, but first must find his way home.
Goldstein's unabashedly cloying second novel (after All That Matters)... If you think you know how it ends, you're right. But if you think you won't get at least a little weepy, you're wrong." - Publishers Weekly.
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