As a psychologist of quiet acclaim who never expected to understand his own family, William would reconstruct December 14, 1973, as a day of firsts - the first time he had felt rain, the first time he had been on a bicycle and the first and only time in his life (he predicted) that he would come close to drowning. He had no recollection of that day and despite his grandmother's discomfort when he had asked her about it, there was nothing to suggest...