A beautiful new novel about the consequences of pursuing the American Dream, by an author "exquisitely tuned to his characters' hopes, uncertainties and misgivings." ( Seattle Times ) Richie Palumbo, the most prosaic of men, gets lost one night in 1969 while driving home with his family. He finds himself in the town of Norumbega-hidden, remote, and gorgeous, at the far edges of Boston's western suburbs. He sees a venerable old house and, without quite...