<DIV><B>?Reading <I>Pacific</I> makes me once again fall in love with Drury’s words, and his perception of a world that is full of dangers and passions and mysteries and graces.”?Yiyun Li</B> <br><BR>In <I>Pacific</I>, Tom Drury revisits the community of Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, <I>The End of Vandalism</I>. When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who abandoned him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young woman comes to Stone City on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she meets?including Micah’s half-sister, Lyris, and his father, Tiny, a petty thief. An investigation into the stranger’s identity uncovers a darkly disturbed life, as parallel narratives of the comic and tragic, the mysterious and quotidian, unfold in both the country and the city.<br></DIV>