New York: William H. Morrow, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel (third book) by this award-winning writer, the story of a woman's search for memory and meaning .. . one which spins hard-won triumph out of tragedy, testifying to the indelibility of the human spirit. "Abigail Schiller, is living a seemingly normal childhood in a small Catholic community in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother Sam, unable to live up to his father's rigid ideas of masculinity, mysteriously vanishes at the age of seventeen. . . . Now thirty years old and expecting her first child, Abby . . embarks on an emotional journey that retraces her brother's descent into a world of drug abuse, a journey that contradicts everything she once believed about her family and herself." SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-688144497.