Wayne Harrington, a poet and an English professor at a small university in West Virginia returns to his empty family home in upstate New York to have a last look before he sells it. He is discovered there, sitting on the lawn, in his favorite boyhood spot, with a bullet in his head. His wife, Ann is left with three small children to raise and an overpowering need to piece together the recent past of a husband whose anguish she never suspected. (Newsweek)