<DIV>"<i>How Like an Angel</i> is a powerfully imagined, lyrically wrought novel, overflowing with the senses. Jack Driscoll is a marvel."<br>---Rick Bass<br><br>"<i>How Like an Angel</i> is a lyrical, lonely ode to fatherhood, an aria in words that looks forward and backward at once. Jack Driscoll is a writer of deep heart, relentless honesty, uncanny gentleness, and irresistible spirit."<br>---Pam Houston<br><br><br><i>How Like an Angel</i> is the story of Archibald Angel. With his career going nowhere and a marriage in decline, Angel retreats to a rustic cabin in northern Michigan to make a new life for himself.<br><br>In spite of his forward thinking, Angel's move is in many ways a journey into the past. Besides lacking modern comforts, the cabin conjures the ghost of Angel's troubled childhood, when his undertaker father took the cabin in trade as payment from a widow who couldn't otherwise afford the cost of her husband's burial. After Angel's mother subsequently fled, abandoning her family to recover from a mental breakdown, the cabin was an escape for father and son.<br><br>While Archibald Angel revisits his knotted and difficult past, his ex-wife and young son contemplate their future. Slowly, with unexpected help from an unpredictable woman, Angel realizes he too must find a way to begin again or risk failing his son as his own father failed him.<br><br>With pathos, humor, and unflagging generosity of spirit, <i>How Like an Angel</i> takes us deep into the hinterland of the human heart and discovers there the source of the love that keeps us holding on against all odds.<br></div>