Every Visible Thing

<p>Five years ago the eldest Furey son Hugh ran off into the night and never returned. His parents estranged by grief are trying to put the tragedy behind them after a long exhausting and fruitless search. His mother recovering from an emotional breakdown has lost herself in a new career; Hugh's father having abandoned his faith and his position as a theology professor now cares halfheartedly for their two remaining children. Left more or less to fend for themselves ten-year-old Owen and fifteen-year-old Lena struggle to hold on to their brother's memory--an increasingly self-destructive obsession that gives rise to angel fantasies drug use quixotic quests and dangerous experimentation that will ultimately force a damaged family to confront its past and find a future. </p>