Available Light: Recollections and Reflections of a Son

This collection of memoir scenes and vignettes is full of beautiful and haunting engagements with the generations and mortality. It travels all the family vectors: fathers and sons, mothers and sons, brothers, husbands, and wives. It brilliantly weaves the speaker's past and present into a study of his father while alluding to so much outside he immediate context. It refines the memoir genre.