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Kara Bell spent her youth plotting escape from Witch s Falls, Arkansas. Relentless focus and the spurning of all emotional attachment led to the doctoral program in philosophy at Columbia University. But Kara s careful plans are upended by cancer, and suddenly she is home again, where she finds herself subject to her mother s suffocating care, her brother s puzzling love life, the local doctor s meddling, and the strong gravitational pull of her old friend and obsession, Christy Lee. Will Kara find health and sanity? Will she learn what really happened to her father? Can she escape Witch s...

As the elderly hero of Thomas Rayfiel s daring new novel, "In Pinelight, " sits in an old folks home responding to the questions of an unseen interrogator, the fragments he supplies form the portrait of a man s life in upstate New York. Losses, loves, destructive family relationships, sexual entanglements, and moments of mystical awareness filter through the seeming minutiae of small-town gossip to confront the reader with their cumulative power.

"In Pinelight" stirs the emotions both by its formal virtuosity and by the precision with which the narrator is able to reveal human...