Description
At fifty-seven, Ray feels stranded between endings and beginnings—“too old for starting over, too young for giving up”—until a chance encounter leads him to adopt a battered mongrel he names One Eye. As their unlikely bond grows, the story follows Ray’s quiet attempts to keep moving forward while confronting the loneliness and losses that have shaped him. With spare, intimate prose, this wholly different love story explores companionship as both refuge and reckoning, revealing how care can reopen old wounds even as it offers new warmth. Through themes of abandonment, resilience, and the stubborn tenderness of friendship, Spill Simmer Falter Wither delivers a devastating yet deeply humane portrait of two outcasts learning to live with—and for—each other.
Available Editions
paperback
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published Mar 8, 2016
235 pages
ISBN: 9780544716223
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First Published
2015
Language
eng
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