Stained-Glass Curtain

When Robert Martin's wife, Angie, dies of breast cancer after thirty-four years of marriage, he attempts his lifelong dream-that of hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. His constant companions are grief and memories. On the trail, with a nickname of Dances with Snakes-Snaky for short-he meets a variety of other hikers. Socrates is a Duke graduate and know-it-all scientist; Preacher is a fervid Christian fundamentalist and proselytizer; Southern Bell is an Alabama veterinarian...