I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused.
Not slowly over time by abuse or meanness but on a certain day and by ignorance, by plain lack of notice.
Though it happened thirty-four years ago, and though I can't say it's haunted my mind that many nights lately, I suspect I can draw it out for you now, clear as this noon.
I may need to try.
Set in a summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the deceptively tranquil 1950s, The Tongues of Angels is a story of the twenty-one-year-old painting teacher, a superbly gifted boy, and their advance toward a startling fate.
As the now-older man looks back at on that summer, he reflects on the meanings he thought he had learned on the threshold of manhood from the perspective of full maturity.
