Oakley Hall was a revered writing instructor whose students included Michael Chabon and Anne Rice. Here we meet a man on death row, sentenced to die for the murder of a beautiful woman. But as we learn the story of her death—and troubled life—one question haunts us: why would he kill the woman he craves more than life itself? Original So Many Doors is a beautiful, powerful, even masterful novel by a writer whose work enriched American literature.- Michael Chabon