City of Strangers

<b>Faith family and the weight of history intersect in this remarkable debut from a rising literary talent</b> <p/> A cold gray Sunday dawns on New York City to find Paul Metzger trudging through the winter streets to visit his past. He goes first to see his estranged decades-older half-brother; then his dying father whose notorious early life still haunts his children; and finally the ex-wife he cannot help but continue to love. But a fourth encounter-violent unexpected-sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change Paul's life as well as the family he's struggled so long to understand. <p/> Ian MacKenzie's stirring and lyrical debut is a story of a family inalterably fractured by its past of a man who refuses to believe that what is done cannot be undone and of a world that insists-catastrophically in the end-otherwise.