A Foreword Book of the Year in Autobiography/Memoir A Publishers Weekly Indie Top 20 selection A Washington Post Best Book of 2009 As Joe Thorndike loses both both memory and language, his son John moves in to look after him. Joe can no longer tell time or make a phone call, and forgets the...

John Thorndike met his wife, Clarisa, as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador. They fell in love, married, and had a son, Janir. But soon Clarisa began a painful slide into schizophrenia, and John realized that the only way to protect Janir was to take him away from his mother. So begins...

Virginia and Joe Thorndike have been married for 22 years, and now she's in love with a surgeon 13 years her junior. She leaves her husband and flies to Miami to start living with Rich Villamano, but there he tells her he has changed his mind and they must go their own ways. In an instant, their...

In the spring of 1956, a young American photographer falls in love with a Cuban line cook in New York. They have a 10-week affair that ends when Immigration arrests and deports him, and by then Clare Miller is pregnant. Few Americans know the name Camilo Cienfuegos. All Cubans do....

In real life Virginia Thorndike, the author’s mother, died of a drug and alcohol overdose at the age of 57. In this novel she recovers and fights to stay clean. Her son Rob drives her home from rehab, pours her gin and wine onto the lawn and clears her house of all drugs.