First published 2011
Reclusive 71-year-old abstract painter Rabo Karabekian guards a dark secret in his Long Island potato barn. When a young, persistent widow moves in next door, she compels Rabo to reveal his tumultuous life story - from artistic triumphs to personal tragedies. As the past unspools, Vonnegut lays bare Rabo's careless fancies, his complex relationships, and the loss that still haunts him.
Genres: fiction, art, american-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary, biographical-fiction
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: California, New York
Period: 20th-century
318 pages · Paperback · Dial Press Trade Paperback