(Small surface tear on the back of the book) crossing the country, sobering up, and starting over have left him with razor-sharp regret. Terrance doesnt know that Jamie, now an academic, inhibits an ever-shrinking circle of lonliness; that lewis, a merchant marine, fears life on dry land; that connor struggles to connect with the son he sees teetering on an all-too-familiar edge. He only knows that hr has one last try to build a bridge, through the years, to his family.