Discreetly ground-breaking and altogether trustworthy, Dorcy's first novel depicts the significant love between a picture taker and a Texas rancher's better half who, together for just four days, never lose their affections for one another. In August 1995, 52-year-old separation James Knight packs his pickup truck and goes to Texas, Denton County. There, he solicits bearings from Camilla Williams, alone at home while her better half and two youngsters visit the Georgia State Fair. At first, neither James nor Camilla anticipates that their arbitrary experience should prompt enchantment, yet their common want is evident. Waller recounts to their story just as it were genuine, professing to have found out about Camilla from her youngsters after her passing, read her diaries, seen James' relics of those four days and met a jazz performer who knew the picture taker. Scenes between the darlings are movingly evoked and minutes with Camilla, who praises her birthday 22 years after the fact by considering her short time with James, are especially powerful. A sexual, ambivalent story of waiting recollections and neglected conceivable outcomes. Photographs of secured spans fill in as representations. 35,000 first printing.