Golden Age

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Timothy “Tim,” Deborah “Debbie,” Dean Henry, and Christina Eloise “Tina”—Lillian and Arthur’s children

Charlie Wickett — Tim’s son

Fiona McCorkle — Charlie’s mother

Riley Calhoun — Charlie’s wife

Alexis — Tim and Riley’s daughter

Hugh — Debbie’s husband

Carlie and Kevin “Kevvie”—Debbie and Hugh’s children

Linda — Dean’s wife

Eric — Dean and Linda’s son

Cheryl — Linda’s daughter

Henry—fifth child of Walter and Rosanna

Claire—sixth child of Walter and Rosanna

Paul Darnell — Claire’s first husband

Grayson and Bradley — Claire and Paul’s sons

Lisa — Grayson’s wife

Dustin — Grayson and Lisa’s son

Samantha — Bradley’s wife

Laure and Ned — Bradley and Samantha’s children

Carl — Claire’s second husband

Angie — Carl’s daughter

Doug Schmidt — Angie’s husband

Peter, Rhea, and Dash — Angie and Doug’s children

IT WAS FRIDAY. Everyone was somewhere else, doing last-minute chores. The tall young man got out of his little green station wagon, stretched, looked around, took off his sunglasses, and started up the walk. Minnie Frederick, who saw him through her bedroom window, dropped the stack of sheets she was carrying and ran down the stairs. But he was not at the door, and when she went out onto the porch, he was nowhere to be seen. Back in the house, through the kitchen, out onto the stoop. Still nothing, apart from Jesse, her nephew, a noisy dot, cultivating the bean field east of the Osage-orange hedge. She walked around the house to the front porch. The car was still there. She crossed to it and looked in the window. A pair of fancy boots in the foot well of the passenger’s seat, two wadded-up pieces of waxed paper, a soda can. She stood beside the green car for a long moment, then touched the hood. It was warm. It was real.

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