A classic tale of infidelity and its consequences, this novel is set against the austere beauty of the Iowa heartland. "The Book of Famous Iowans" is about the undoing of a marriage and, thus, a family as well as a childhood, told with the same elegiac retrospection that haunts...
Will Vaughn, a man of late middle age living in Chicago with his second wife, remembers the month of June 1957 in his hometown, the rural village of New Holland, Iowa. More precisely, Will remembers just a few days of that month and the quick sequence of astonishing events that...