South: A Novel

A mosaic of grief, a lifetime of love and loss, rendered with the cadence of Hemingway

South is a novel about grief, marriage, artistic ambition, and the search for home. Told through interconnected stories and journal entries, it follows Bert Staub, an aspiring writer, and Trudy Steiner, a painter, from their first meeting in upstate New York through years in rural Vermont, New Haven, and New York City.

Within their seemingly idyllic marriage, the fissures that were once obscured become evid...