Afternoon Hours of a Hermit: A Novel Union Square & Co Iris’s big chance comes as

Iris’s big chance comes as her talent soars

Emmett realizes he might be searching for a type of killer who

Nathan Barrister was a good man

This house holds on to souls for a lifetime

a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley

Afternoon Hours of a Hermit: A Novel Union Square & Co Iris’s big chance comes asA darkly funny and profoundly moving new novel by award winning author Patrick Cottrell. And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write? I would say I was Dan Moran, a Korean adoptee, single, approaching forty, once plain in appearance as a woman, now ugly as a man, thats who or what I thought I was. Most importantly, I was no longer useless, I was a writer. Five years after the death of his youngest brother, Dan Moran is