Jake Garrison learned the lesson early: never show pain. When he discovers his dying father lacks the money for hospital bills, he abandons his dream of being a writer to return to what he has always done well. He agrees to investigate a struggling typewriter company for a man Garrison suspects may be sleeping with his wife. It's no surprise, then, that when Diane announces she's pregnant at last, he's certain he's not the father of her child. Not that he'll ever tell her. Harper Prize-winning novelist Herbert Lobsenz takes us on a journey back to the turbulent days of the early 1960s when our safe world was shattered by an assassin's bullet. There, at the turning point for a generation, one man must face his demons, learning in the process that most of them are of his own creation.