In the winter of 2012 seventy-nine year old Somerset travels back to his ancestral home in idyllic Drums, Pennsylvania to renovate his dilapidated house. Burdened by the loss of his beloved wife, the long-ago disappearance of his rebellious son, and angry at God and at himself Somerset hopes to reach a final understanding of the meaning of his life. While a blizzard threatens to undermine his project and "Armageddon" draws near, Somerset discovers a boy squatting on the property. As they unearth objects in the house lost to time Somerset revisits his father's cruelty and the accident that cost him his brother's life. He recalls his dreamy mother and her transience and the punishment inflicted upon her by his father. While a murder of crows harass and torment him Somerset's mind circles back to meeting and falling in love with his wife Winona and creating the joy and pain that was his son, Cole, who went missing thirty years before. Part elegy, part history, part existential ghost tale The Stove-Junker is a harrowing, lyrical meditation on loss, heartbreak, and the power of memory.

The Stove-Junker

Literature & Fiction

Kalsi, S.K.

Literary

Little Feather Books, Inc.

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The Stove-Junker