Author Description

A sophisticated, intense and compact tale of love and regret, this novel is set in 1984. Jonathan Parrish is 43 and unmarried. Lily Mayeux, 35 and living in Portland, Maine, is a married high school biology and earth science teacher. Jonathan and Lily's one-year relationship in New York 12 years earlier ended when workaholic Jonathan went off to Nicaragua. When he sees her name on a list of attendees for a New Orleans convention where he's scheduled to speak, he starts smoking again.