Roads of the Heart

With the deep emotion and insight of “a true storyteller” (Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times ), Christopher Tilghman, the author of the acclaimed Mason’s Retreat and In a Father’s Place , has written a powerful new novel of men and women, fathers and families. Eric Alwin has gone to visit his elderly father, a once commanding and charismatic Maryland senator who has seen his public service soured–and his family broken–by a sex scandal. Realizing that his own unfaithfulness, his disaffection with h