Read about another book Crossen recommends.World's End
by T.C. Boyle
Perhaps my favorite family saga is T.C. Boyle's "World's End," a novel that traces some Hudson Valley families from 1663 to 1969. In 1663, Jeremias Van Brunt, newly settled with his family on a small hardscrabble farm near Peterskills, loses his right foot to a snapping turtle and gangrene. Three hundred years later, his descendant, Walter Van Brunt, high on wine and pot, loses his right foot in a motorcycle accident. Shaken by visions of the past, Walter searches for his dead father but then tries to flee when he finds his ghost. "No use fighting it," his father tells him. "It's in the blood, Walter. It's in the bones."
--Marshal Zeringue
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