Marianne Wiggins

Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved...

Wiggins tells the fictional story of Edward Sheriff Curtis, the enigmatic photographer of the American West, protege of J. P. Morgan, and friend of Theodore Roosevelt, from the point of view of her fictional self.

A woman who lost her memory after seeing her husband and sons die in a tornado attempts to regain it by a passionate love affair with a much younger man. The man is familiar with people losing their memory from his days as foreign correspondent in Bosnia.