Set primarily in a garden alongside a tidal river in Maine, River Road maps the troubled path of a middle-aged man torn between longing for an idealized past that never existed and realizing he must remain vulnerable to a future of love. Over Breakfast ... he said, We need to reinvent ourselves, meaning not so much thepair as the each of us, as if we could unroll the raw blue-print of being, right there on the table between us by setting our bowls and cups at the corners to fix it in place and staring down abstract anew the physics of stress and tolerance into other schemata, as if time were
