He wants to get away from it all. Despite a satisfying career as chief curator of a museum devoted to the vanished American past, he find he himself wants to vanish. So with the help of a book on the life an culture of a vanished tribe of Indians known as Bluff-dwelelrs, he takes up residence in the wilderness of the Ozark mountains. But after 6 years of this life he realizes that what he is trying to get away from is himself...
With the gentle humor and earthy passion that characterize all of his novels, Donald Harington attempts to offer some knowing and some understanding, father along.