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A richly textured coming-of-age history about fathers and sons, home and family, recalling classics by Thomas Wolfe and William Styron, by a robust new words in fiction. Just before Henry Aster's labor and birth, his father - outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow - reluctantly comes back to the tiny Appalachian town where he was raised and installs his young family in an tremendous house of flat iron and glass perched on top of the side of a pile. There, Henry grows up under the writing desk of the fiercely great man. However when tragedy tips his father toward a fearsome unraveling, that which was once a son's reverence is poisoned, and Henry flees, never to come back until years later when he, too, must go home again. Mythic in its sweep and mesmeric in its prose, The Barrowfields is a breathtaking debut about the darker part of devotion, the limitations of forgiveness, and the reparative electricity of distributed pasts.
