In his follow up to The End of Vandalism Drury depicts a quiet Midwestern October weekend in the lives of the Darling family whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles an heirloom shotgun; for his wife Joan the imaginative life she once knew; for their young son Micah a knowledge of the scope of his world aided by prowling the empty town at night; and for Joan?s daughter Lyris a stable home where she can begin to grow up. Sometimes together other times crucially apart the Darlings move through a series of vivid encounters that demonstrate how even the most provisional family can endure in its own particular way.
