Pacific Author:Tom Drury “Reading Pacific makes me once again fall in love with Drury?s words, and his perception of a world that is full of dangers and passions and mysteries and graces.?—Yiyun Li — In Pacific, Tom Drury revisits the community of Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism. When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los A... more »ngeles to reunite with the mother who abandoned him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young woman comes to Stone City on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she meets—including Micah?s half-sister, Lyris, and his father, Tiny, a petty thief. An investigation into the stranger?s identity uncovers a darkly disturbed life, as parallel narratives of the comic and tragic, the mysterious and quotidian, unfold in both the country and the city.« less