
As haunting and enigmatic as a thriller, Shreve?s tale of a near future evolves into a glorious meditation on love, fear, and forgiveness In the Washington, D.C., of a near future, a city of floods and frequent terrorist bombings, the tightly knit Frayn family has carved out...


The Frayn family of Washington, D.C., is coping pretty well with twenty-first century realities of life--snipers, bomb threats, natural disasters, etc. Then, in the moment it takes Claire Frayn to dig for her umbrella, her politically outspoken brother Steven is shot down right...