Twelve years after a tragic accident & a cover-up that led to prison time Dwight Arno now fifty is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California haunted yet keeping his head down Dwight manages a sporting goods store & dates a woman to whom he hasnt revealed the truth about his past. Then an unexpected arrival throws his carefully neutralized life into turmoil & exposes all that hes hidden. Sam Dwights estranged college-age son has shown up without warning fleeing a devastating incident in his own life. In its way Sams sense of guilt is as crushing as his fathers. As the two men are forced to confront their similar natures & their half-buried hopes for connection they must also search for redemption & love. In turn they dramatically transform the lives of the women around them: the ex-wives mothers & lovers they have turned to in their desperate attempts to somehow rewrite outrun or eradicate the past. Told in the resonant voices of everyday people gripped in the emotional riptide of lived life Northwest Corner" is at once tough & heart-lifting an urgent powerful story about family bonds that can never be broken & the wayward roads that lead us back to those we love."