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From the author of The Oregon Experiment, the story of a father's return to his childhood home—the site of unspeakable tragedy—and of the complex and often warring obligations we have to our family, our friends, and our past.Old Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northeastern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It's where Cole Callahan spent his youth, in a historic white colonial that his family was devoted to restoring—painstakingly, relentlessly, pointlessly. But the famous claim that you can't go home again falls far short in this instance. Cole has not come back to this house, to this street, in thirty years—not since he was a teenager, when one night his father murdered his mother in a fit of rage. Now, however, he finally dares to risk it, ostensibly to collect precious material for his construction business on the west coast, and is shocked to discover his elderly father, freed from prison, living alone in...Pages of Old Newgate Road :
