The Meaning of Isolated Objects

Scott has lived all of his life traveling between the United States and Afghanistan, doing solitary and dangerous CIA work in the dusty Afghani mountains, only returning to the Blue Ridge of Virginia to check on his house and daughter Wendell, an archaeologist obsessed with finding clues to the past.

Both father and daughter still grieve the loss of wife and mother Lynnie, who died giving birth to Wendell, but they compensate by living reckless, hedonistic lives, seeking solace in nature and...