Myra Sims Author:Janis Owens Reappearance of characters from Owens's first novel, My Brother Michael, this time from the eponymous Myra Sims's point of view. (Myra's brother-in law, Gabriel Catt, narrated the previous book, an account of his unquenchable love for the woman who became his brother's wife.) — This version, an affecting t... more »ale of incest, adultery and hard-won love among the lowborn denizens of a West Florida mill town, begins, like the first, with Michael, Myra's husband and Gabriel's brother, dead at age 43. We have flashbacks to their traumatic childhoods and to the adulterous liaison between Myra and Gabriel. In an arduous process of recovery, Myra confronts the truth that her adultery was the result of a drug-fogged mind and recognizes that Michael was always her true love. Myra's cynical view of her affair with Gabriel negates his romantic perception that the encounter was passionately reciprocated.« less