This is a piece for solo voice, the voice of Will Ross, recently widowed. For years he's worked on refurbishing his vacation cottage to be a retirement home for himself and his wife, Helen. As soon as he settles in, Helen dies. As the book opens, Will has decided, over the objections of his son (who lives in Houston) to stay on alone, to remain in his summer house after the summer has ended.
"The novelist moves with the feeling, wherever it leads, stands inside it, catching its weather, making one sense the currents, the back eddies of loneliness. It seemed to me at times, reading Autumn, that no one I had previously read had been as patient or keen or unsentimental..."
Benjamin De Mott, The New York Times Book Review
"...a remarkable novel: brief, luminous, intense, unexpectedly humorous... A.G. Mojtabai does not merely sympathize with old age; she grants it the far more valuable gifts of dignity, respect and understanding."
