Then Again

Just before supper on the coldest February eleventh ever in Sevier County, Utah, farmer Evan Oakerlund, age fifty, goes out to look for the family dog and doesn't come back. An hour later, Evan's wife, Nona, finds his body not fifty yards from their back porch. Three hours after that, the news of Evan's sudden death reaches his son Robbie, who is six thousand miles away in Austria and just four days from completing a two-year Mormon mission.

Then Again is the story of Robbie’s trip home. He ...