The Dunbar boys bring themselves up after the death of their mother and desertion by their father. Clay Dunbar, a sixteen year old, leaves his brothers and feels impelled to go to his father’s property and help him build an access bridge to replace one washed away in a flood. He labors for eighteen months with his father and in doing so learns a lot about himself, reconnecting with a man his brothers despise for leaving them. His father’s loss of both his wives and Clay’s loss of the young girl he loves are stories interwoven in the book.
This is a novel you either love and are curious enough to persist until the gripping conclusion, or you may find just too many story lines and characters to unravel.
Meg Dillon, convenor