Death and the butterfly, hardcover/colin hester

A sweeping multigenerational story centered around endless heartbreak and enduring love London, England, September 1940.

Thirteen-year-old Susan McEwan and her older brother, Phillip--himself a pilot--witness firsthand the initial Nazi bombing of civilian London.

Weeks later, Phillips Sunderland is shot down, and his family is wordlessly devastated.

Toronto, Canada, the early 1980s.

As a young couple struggles to survive the Reagan recession, the husband, Alexander Polo, is forced to take a job as a paperboy.

When the wife, Julie, is expectant, Polo must now confront his future head-on and heart open.

Montana, the first days of September 2001.

In the midst of his wedding and 9/11, Jack Riordan discovers a magazine story written by Polo about Susan and airplanes and her love of the poems of Pablo Neruda.

With humor and insight, Colin Hester explores how Susan, Polo, and Jack carry on--grieving the death of a child or the end of a marriage--in deeply felt and beautifully imagined prose.

Hesters intricate and sweeping multigenerational novel, Death and the Butterfly , follows a cast of interconnected characters through lifes endless heartbreak and enduring love.

About the Author COLIN HESTER is a British-born former student of Zen and former thirty-year-old paperboy.

The author of Diamond Sutra , Hester has taught writing at Central Washington University, the University of Montana, and the University of Colorado.

He lives just north of Seattle with his British-born wife and his U.

-born cat.