The author of National Book Award-finalist }The Giant's House{ weaves an epic family saga set against the backdrop of twentieth America. An enigmatic woman shows up in a Massachusetts town with a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold, from these inauspicious beginnings becoming the town's most notable resident From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the beginning of the twentieth century - nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold on her person - Bertha Truitt is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts.
