By the author of the acclaimed Water in Darkness, this tightly crafted search for redemption and forgiveness within the shadows of a family's military past is set in a 1980s rustbelt town south of Chicago, and tells the story of Bruno Konick, an aged veteran haunted by his own actions in W.W.II; his son Bruce, an unemployed factory worker badly disfigured by the siege of Khe Sanh, his youngest son Len, just recovering from the heroin addiction he learned as a hospital corspman in Saigon; and his grandson Luke, dreaming of heroism in a post-Vietnam America.