In a sun baked Southern town near the famous Appalachian Trail, where poverty, greed, and drug abuse have had tragic consequences, a family saga reaches its conclusion.
It is now 2019. Timewall is on the Appalachian Trail, Tommy is fighting in Afghanistan, Ridley is pondering life and relationships, Priscilla is holding ad hoc physics lectures, Robbie has found religion in prison, Lainey discovers that she’s pregnant, Jocela takes a new breath of purpose, Bo’s heart begins to fail, and a middle‑aged Blaize is debating the value of her life.
As Covid flares across the country, the estranged members of the Speaks family find themselves challenged to fulfill their duties to one another as events race toward a poignant and heartbreaking climax.
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