Andrew Krivak is the author of A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life, a memoir about his eight years in the Jesuit Order, and editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902–1912. The grandson of Slovak immigrants, he grew up in Pennsylvania, has lived in London, and has taught at Harvard, Rutgers, and the College of the Holy Cross. Mr. Krivak currently lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts. This is his first novel.