City Of Strangers

Faith family and the weight of history intersect in this remarkable debutfrom a rising literary talent A cold gray Sunday dawns on New York City tofind Paul Met... » 

Faith family and the weight of history intersect in this remarkable debutfrom a rising literary talent A cold gray Sunday dawns on New York City tofind Paul Metzger trudging through the winter streets to visit his past. Hegoes first to see his estranged decadesolder halfbrother then his dyingfather whose notorious early life still haunts his children and finally theexwife he cannot help but continue to love. But a fourth encounteraviolentunexpectedasets in motion a chain of events that will forever change Paulaslife as well as the family heas struggled so long to understand. IanMacKenzieas stirring and lyrical debut is a story of a family inalterablyfractured by its past of a man who refuses to believe that what is done cannotbe undone and of a world that insistsacatastrophically in the endaotherwise. «