"A tender, powerful feat." (The New York Times) - Percival Everett's great novel of loss and redemption.

Paleontologist Zach Wells has settled comfortably into his self-deprecating detachment: He distrusts ideals, whether at the university, where he, himself African-American, does not support equal rights, or at home in his chilled relationship with his wife. The only light in his life is his twelve-year-old daughter Sarah. When she loses her vision and a harrowing diagnosis follows, Zach flees to the New Mexico desert. There he follows up on a mysterious call for help he found in a second-hand jacket. As stirring as it is psychologically subtle, the Pulitzer Prize finalist tells a great story of loss and redemption.