A touching and gentle book which details Ob and Summer's life after May's, Ob's wife, death. Ob believes May is still there and enlists the help of Cletus, a misfit from Summer's school, in order to communicate with May. Cletus was chosen as he had been through a near-death experience as a child. In order to bring May to them Ob talks about May, and the little things that made her special. For Summer it was "more comfort, more real ... than May's true funeral had been. Seems once people bring in outsiders who make a career of bereavement - undertakers, preachers - their grieving gets turned into a kind of system." Ob and Summer's search for peace and the strength to continue is finally rewarded, but not in the way Ob was expecting.
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