So Long See You Tomorrow Author:William Maxwell In rural Illinois, two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers -- the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery -- is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never ... more »speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret.« less