A memoir from the Newsweek foreign correspondent Scott C. Johnson in which he explores his relationship with his father, a spy with the CIA whose murky past causes a lifetime of suspicion and deception.
The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Caleb forces Jacob to deal with his past.
Three African-American men examine their lives when they are faced with life-changing conflicts: Prodigy Banks' violent, promiscuous past has come back to haunt him; Bernard Charles' workaholic tendencies have led his wife to infidelity; and Winston "Poppa Doc" Fuller must resolve issues with his son before he dies of lung cancer.
Kevin Sweeney, three-years-old when his father died, recalls childhood and tells how, at age eight, he selected three men from the community, unbeknownst to them, that he decided to emulate on his path to manhood.
An Italian man's long-standing attitudes are shaken when he learns that his distant, fascist, recently deceased father was really a double agent for the KGB.
While a serial killer stalks his small Georgia town, sixteen-year-old Henry tries to find the truth about the terrible accident that robbed him of his mother and his memories, aided by his friend Justine but not by his distant father.
Olu begs his father to be allowed to stay up and finish a project, but his father insists that he go to sleep, promising that he can have fun overnight, too.
