Just as he is finding liberation from the burdens of his middle-aged life-an unfulfilling marriage finally ended, a bartending job left behind-the narrator of Indian Leap receives a shattering phone call. The terrible news propels him back into the life of his ex-wife, as he accompanies her to rural Massachusetts to retrieve her twelve-year-old nephew, now an orphan. Back in New York, he finds himself reunited with his wife, again at the bar, and raising a child who is desperately in need of a father. Stuck with the consequences of his loyalty, he finds solace in his friends-as brilliant and...
Just as he is finding liberation from the burdens of his middle-aged life-an unfulfilling marriage finally ended, a bartending job left behind-the nar...