Tom Connor's gift : (mad grief, mad love, and a crooked road home)
David Allan Cates (Author)
"A recently-widowed doctor, stunned by grief, retreats to a cabin on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front. Inside she has a puppy and a stack of letters from an old lover. Outside, there's a bear. As she revisits the letters from Tom Connor, we come to see, through his eyes, the dusty, broken alleys of Central America during the war years. The two narratives taken together explore themes of life-long love, about what we can see only when we are ready to see, and how hope can grow in the darkest of places. The third in what the author sees as his "homecoming trilogy" (after Hunger in American and Ben ' Strange Trip Home), Tom Conno'r's Gift shines a light on the transformative act of storytelling itself, and is destined to be received as one of the most important novels of the year." -- from Amazon review
Print Book, English, 2014
Bangtail Press, Bozeman, MT, 2014