Long after he drifts out of reach, a woman is haunted by the troubled boy who befriended her as an outcast teenager, in this heart-rending novel by the internationally bestselling author of Trespasses. In 1980s Ireland, R鏙s璯 and Red bond as only two precocious and disaffected teenagers can. Soon he is privy to the secret source of her shame and anger: the father who's abandoned her and her mother to their damp house and never-ending strife. But what does R鏙s璯 know about why Red avoids going home to his own posh parents and house--the house he soon flees forever?
When a Christmas visit to her father reveals the devastating truth of his new life in London, R鏙s璯 tracks down Red and moves into his Pimlico squat. But the path he is now on is a disturbing one, and gradually they drift apart. And yet the great, never-consummated passion of her youth remains a visitation upon the years that follow. Will R鏙s璯 ever stop longing for Red? Will she ever learn to let someone else love her--or learn to love herself?
Stations is a gorgeous, wrenching novel about the terrible--and sometimes redemptive--power with which the past hovers over the present.
