Imagine the elation of having your dead son brought back to life. That is what Michael Sumner’s parents experience when, one year after he’s reported killed in action in Vietnam, they are told their son is alive and has escaped from a cadre of Viet Cong. But reunited with his family in their new Florida home, Michael has become a stranger to them, and soon living with him becomes more difficult than having him dead. Attempting to break into his suffering and get him back, fearful he may turn to violence, his parents suspect the worst when a young woman who has befriended Michael abruptly disappears
Robert Bausch wrote his first novel when he was in the eighth grade (years before his best friend/ally and twin brother, Richard, wrote his). Though it was not published, he has since then authored five books of fiction: On the Way Home; A Hole in the Earth; The White Rooster & Other Stories (awarded the Dictionary of Literary Biography’s 1995 prize for distinguished fiction); Almighty Me!; and The Lives of Riley Chance. He has been a teacher of writing, of literature, of survival training in the air force, of philosophy for more than thirty years and is currently associate professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College in Woodbridge.
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