
Sadness and loss invade nine-year-old Andy's world on a hot July afternoon when his Uncle Andrew is murdered. No one tells the boy why his uncle and namesake was killed, and the question follows Andy into manhood. This beautiful, bittersweet novel was featured by "Booklist" and...

Wendell Berry's haunting novel follows Andy Catlett as he revisits the summer of 1944 when his beloved Uncle Andrew was killed and, years later, seeks to unravel the mystery of that violent act and understand how memory and love shape our lives across decades In...

In this, Wendell Berry's fifth novel and ninth work of fiction, Andy Catlett revisits his own ninth year in the summer of 1944 when his beloved uncle is shot and killed by the surly and mysterious Carp Harmon. This is his Uncle Andrew, after whom the boy is named, someone who...