First published 2007
A middle-aged man walks through the French countryside near Bastogne, following the path where his father once bled during World War II. He carries his own ghosts alongside those of his wounded parent. Elsewhere, Annabella's father watches his beautiful daughter trapped in a marriage gone wrong. He plots her escape from a husband who was the wrong choice from the start. In Paris, a married couple marks another wedding anniversary. The husband thinks about his wife's younger years in this same city, about the sweet and bitter turns their shared life has taken. McNally weaves seven stories around characters who navigate love in all its forms. These tales speak to readers who question faith but still search for something sacred. Each story examines how people connect, lose each other, and try to reconnect across time and distance.
Genres: romance, literary-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Bastogne, France, Paris
Period: World War II
232 pages · Hardcover · Southern Methodist Univ Pr