Jesse Ohio is dying of cancer in a ward called "Death Row" - no patient who goes there ever comes out alive. The ward is part of a hospital in a small, abandoned town called Bliss. At Jesse's bedside is his friend and companion, Soul Banes. The men have a bond which seems puzzling. It is a bond that binds. Theirs is a lifetime friendship from the time both men fled Nazi-Germany to settle in the United States. Each married and then widowed. A Pulitzer...