Early summer, 1910. A wealthy industrialist family from Chicago arrives by train from to a small, seaside village in New England. The Crowningshields have just purchased an enormous Victorian relic, a shingled palace on a tall bluff, overlooking the glittering sea, called Juniper Point, known for...
In 2002, a short time after the discovery of a small, cancerous node inside my prostate, a year after my father's death, almost to the day, I fell into a deep, panicky, despair. It was the conflation of life's two great rivers. The loss of a beloved parent, and the sudden, horrifying glimpse o...