After Lucy

Porter Ellis once expected to become a celebrated painter. A decade of earning a living as a graphic designer wore that ambition down. Then his wife, Lucy, dies of breast cancer, and he finds he cannot face her parents.

Rather than stay put, Porter slips out of town with his twelve-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son, hoping a journey together can somehow heal the three of them. Along the way they meet a varied cast of odd and entertaining people, and these encounters push Porter to confront his grief and begin again.

The novel explores family relationships, the many emotions that follow a loss, and the hopes the characters still hold for the future.