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Winner of the 2022 Governors Arts Award A 2022 Reading the West Award Finalist A Refinery29 Best New Book to Read in 2021 From Deirdre McNamer, a masterful exploration of the rich and hidden facets of human character, as illuminated by the mysterious connections among the residents of a senior residence in Montana. At the deteriorating Pheasant Run, the occupants keep their secrets and sadnesses locked tight behind closed apartment doors. Kind Leo Umberti, formerly an insurance agent, now quietly spends his days painting abstract landscapes and mourning a long-ago loss. Down the hall, retired professor Rydell Clovis tries desperately to stay fit enough to restart a career in academia. Cassie McMackin, on the same floor, has seemingly lost everythingher husband and only child dead within months of each otherleaving her loosely tethered to this world. And a few doors away, her friend, Viola Six, is convinced of a criminal conspiracy involving the buildings widely disliked manager, Herbie Bonebright. Cassie and Viola dream of leaving their unhappy lives behind, but one womans plan is interruptedand the others unexpectedly set into motionwhen a fire breaks out in Herbies apartment. Cal

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Author

Deirdre McNamer

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781571311382

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24