Hortense Calisher

Dr. Niels Berners - a Swiss plastic surgeon living in New York - is struggling to recover from his dysfunctional son's abandonment of him. He joins a group of four other parents, all with absent children either in jail or in jeopardy, to discuss their feelings and seek a sense of community,...

Pierre Goodman, who grew up in a wealthy Jewish family in London, offers courtroom testimony in the American South about a Ku Klux Klan murder he didn't witness