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56-year old Grace faces her worst nightmare: the death of her son. When Grace's daughter confesses she's at fault, Grace knows she should reassure her. But she can't.
Virgil is about to leave for his once-a-year cross-country trip, building inventory for his doll shop. In a haze of grief, Grace asks if she can go along. 65-year old Virgil is gay and unsure how he feels about the gay rights battle. His longtime long-distance lover proposes marriage, something never before possible. But it would require Virgil to give up his home and business.
Their journey takes them to a farm with five-legged cows and two-headed calves and a factory that makes the sweetest candy corn. Their futures are predicted over leftovers in a roadside diner, and they forage in flea markets and auctions and old barns.
Together, Grace and Virgil cross road after crossroad, trying to find home and family.
About the author
Kathie Giorgio is a critically acclaimed author of four novels – The Home for Wayward Clocks (2011), Learning to Tell (A Life)Time (2013), Rise from the River (2015), and In Grace’s Time (2017); two story collections, Enlarged Hearts (2012) and Oddities and Endings; The Collected Stories of Kathie Giorgio (2016); a collection of essays, Today’s Moment of Happiness Despite the News; A Year of Spontaneous Essays (2018); two poetry chapbooks, True Light Falls in Many Forms (2016) and When You Finally Said No (2019), and a full-length collection of poetry, No Matter Which Way You Look, There Is More to See (2020).
She lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with her husband, Michael Giorgio, (a mystery writer); her daughter, Olivia, who is writing her first novel; a neurotic dog named after Ursula Le Guin; a fat cat named Edgar Allen Paw, and a tiny cat named Muse. Her life is graced with her three older kids, Christopher, Andy, and Katie, and one dynamite granddaughter, Maya Mae.
