Contains one hundred related anecdotes in which a forty-seven-year-old married man living in a in a small New York university town reflects on work, money, professors, children, confusion, and other aspects of life.
Albert Lippincott has spent the last thirty years working for the Nestor, New York, post office as a letter carrier, but when one of his customers dies and Albert discovers he was holding the letter that might have saved him, his precarious existence begins to crumble.
When a violent murderoccurs in a house that grows abandon ed years earlier, a new family becomes obsessed with the house's past, unleashing forces that none of them could have anticipated.
Albert Lippincott has spent the last thirty years working for the Nestor, New York, post office as a letter carrier, but when one of his customers dies and Albert discovers he was holding the letter that might have saved him, his precarious existence begins to crumble.
