Publisher's Synopsis
It was a Sunday night in 1944 when Pearl's salesman husband left. Abandoned, she raises their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nuturing to strangers but distant to those she loves: Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, who never stops yearning for the "perfect" family that could never be his own. Now grown, they have reunited as Pearl lies dying. With anger, with hope, each has a harsh and dazzling story to tell, unlocking the past with all its secrets.
