Faded Flowers, Wilted Weeds

A linked story collection spanning roughly a century. The McCorty and Lavetti families move through rural Ohio and the Bronx, Hearst Castle and the cemeteries of Belgium, the kitchens of Pasadena and the parking lots of the present-day Rust Belt. Pill heads and the children who try to save them. A projectionist whose resentment becomes violence. A war survivor confronting his brother's death. Foster kids and the houses they're abandoned in. Two families moving toward each other across a hundred years. A book about whether bitterness, once it enters a family, can ever be broken.