DAVID GUTERSON has a fantastic story and he tells it with mechanically-precise plotting, endless detail and breathless narrative drive.
A middle-aged man gets his English au pair — Diane — pregnant at his Seattle home in the 1960s. The teenager skips town, bribes him to pay her generous monthly child support and then abandons the child.
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