Captain Nitwit

You nitwit!<p>These aren't Faye Wallace's last words but they are the last ones her husband understands. A few hours later Faye is dead and Toby is a widower beset by new and incomprehensible problems. Was Faye really leaving him as his sister-in-law claims? Why do his daughters suddenly accuse him of behavior he can't even bring himself to imagine? Everyone seems to be misinterpreting him including some of the long-time customers who patronize his shoe store. Through it all his sister stands by him. Then she too appears to doubt him.<p>Set in Massachusetts and California <i>Captain Nitwit</i> is a gently comic but disturbing coming-of-age novel encompassing the 55th year of a man to whom until now nothing much has happened