The following summarizes the book:
Deprentis Drain is a middle-aged, poverty-bound graduate student, living
to find a movie.
He is estranged of a wife and forlorn of a daughter. In the funny and sad retelling of his story, he also recounts events that led to his parents' first meeting in a small town in rural Oregon in 1948. The nostalgia for telling of their meeting gives Deprentis hope.
In the end, nostalgia for past times, for movies, for storytelling, for an affair with a German woman, for conversations with a three-year-old daughter is tempered by a realization that perhaps none of this happened -- not in the way Deprentis tells it.
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