New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991 dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning writer set in Waco, Texas - the story of a woman who leaves her constricting marriage to a Presbyterian minister and reconnects with her high school boyfriend as Waco itself becomes a "new world where superconducting supercolliders, threatening farmlands, have brought into the area a global mix of superscientists." 243 pp. ISBN: 0-394586522.