Suncatchers — Jamie Langston Turner

A Harm Undone, A Wound Healed

People have always fascinated sociologist Perry Warren, yet his most personal interaction--that with his wife and young son--is in shambles. Will his son be raised fatherless, just as he was? Hoping distance will offer answers, Perry embraces a writing project in the town of Derby, where the act of living slows down to a barely perceptible pace. There he discovers a wealth of research--and a reason to hope--in the strangers next door.

His neighbor, Eldeen Rafferty, seems completely unfettered by the sorrows she has known. Instead, Eldeen embraces life in all its gritty, glorious detail, determined to leave cheer in her wake. Perry is baffled by the unending joy, the boundless gratitude, leaving him to wonder what it is she might offer a life haunted by troubles...a life he is at a loss to repair.