Gone so long

"Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part his daughter Susan was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn't remember as she struggles to feel settled to love a man and create something that lasts. Lois her maternal grandmother who raised her tries to find peace in her antique shop in a quaint Florida town but cannot escape her own anger bitterness and fear. Cathartic affirming and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated 'Gone So Long' explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we become and probes the limits of recovery and absolution."--