Loose Ends

A distraught Davis Banks arrives home for his mother's funeral. Davis teaches poetry at a small college. He loves words but not himself. His father had died some years before, and now Davis discovers a lot of little things in his mother's house that don't seem right.

New York Times Book Review - Gavin McNett

Neal Bowers's first novel -- he has also written several books of poetry and nonfiction, including Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist -- is a vividly written mystery about the malleability of truth and the unreliability of memory. And there is such a thing as the truth, Loose Ends suggests -- even if nobody is there to hear the tree when it falls.

Neal Bowers was born and raised in Clarksville, Tennessee, but has lived the past quarter century in Ames, Iowa. Among his six previous books, the most recent are Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist (nonfiction) and Night Vision (poetry). He and his wife, Nancy, also a writer, are supervised by six very helpful cats.