The Butterfly House
Mira, Jan 2005, 19.95, 288 pp.
ISBN: 0778321355
In 1990, a man claiming to be Harley Jaines visits Roberta “Bobbie” Lee with a request. Bobbie insists that the real Harley died in the 1960s in Nam, but the visitor remains insistent as to who he is. Harley wants Bobbie to testify at the parole hearing that his wife Leonora, incarcerated for killing Bobbie's drunk mom Ruth in 1971 in Shady River, Oregon, is about to face. He also asks if she can...