The Story of a Million Years

The acclaimed poet and story writer David Huddle weaves a masterly portrait of two couples and their shared histories desires and secrets. Marcy Allen Uta Jimmy -- each becomes the hero of his or her own story as all mine the past for evidence of goodness. David Huddle moves with remarkable agility from the imagination of a precocious adolescent girl to the fears of a man in midlife to the longings of a wife whose reserve cloaks aching depths. Each of these convincing voices asks the questions central to all our lives: What stories are so important that you''d never reveal them to another person in a million years? How do secrets come to define us for better or for worse? Honest accomplished and wonderfully subtle THE STORY OF A MILLION YEARS portrays the basic human desire to love and be loved unconditionally.