Inspired by the wartime experiences of her late father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason offers an unforgettable novel about an American pilot shot down in occupied Europe in World War II. Returning to his crash site decades later, Marshall Stone is drawn back to the brave people who helped him escape from the Nazis. Marshall's search becomes a wrenching odyssey that threatens to break his heart -- and sets him on a new course for the rest of his life.

Vietnam's moral fallout is revealed to 'Sam' Hughes, an eighteen-year-old Kentucky girl whose father was killed in the war and whose Uncle Emmett may be suffering from Agent Orange