On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska`s Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, & Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary`s old dream, they`re hauling logs out to Caribou Island in good weather & in terrible storms, in sickness & in health, to patch together the kind of cabin that drew them to Alaska in the first place. Across the water on the mainl&, Irene & Gary`s grown daughter, Rhoda is starting her own life. She fantasizes about the perfect wedding day, whilst her betrothed, Jim the dentist, wonders about the possibility of an altogether different future. From the author of the massively-acclaimed ” Legend of a Suicide”, comes a devastating novel about a marriage, a couple blighted by past shadows & the weight of expectation, of themselves & of each other. Brilliantly drawn & fiercely honest in its depiction of love & disappointment, David Vann`s first novel confirms him as one of America`s most dazzling writers of fiction.