Gennie Black is a teenager when she marries Will Mueller. America has just entered World War II, and Pearl Harbor is a recent, raw wound on the national psyche. The young couple has time for a brief honeymoon before Will ships out, bound for the Pacific Ocean theater of battle. Short though the interlude is, it's long enough for Gennie to get pregnant. With the war's end, Will returns home a changed man-harder, easily angered, and with a deep, abiding...