The iconic writer s electrifying first novel is a story of marriage murder and betrayal that only she could tell with such nuance sympathy and suspense--from the bestselling award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean. Everett McClellan and his wife Lily are the great-grandchildren of pioneers and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience--a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California.