1990. Transferred to Horsetail Institution and mortally ill, an inmate devotes his remaining weeks to a project-recording his history on cassette tape. The account describes a curious queer journey that began in rural New England in 1927. Meditating on ruined family, illicit lovers, drunken parties, a tragic marriage, and strange terms of employment, the American inmate strives to wring sense-meaning-from a life now winding down in River Bend City,...