Publisher's Synopsis
While They Were in the Field brings a return of the Honeymoon clan from Van Winkle's debut novel, Abraham Anyhow. Prodigal son, Ike Dyson, estranged for years, returns home to find his ex-step grandmother still alive, but senile and chained to her porch like a dog. As Ike uncovers what's become of Lendell Honeymoon, his stepfather, Ike also confronts a beagle killer, a man named for his daddy's whiskey glass, and a father's dying demands. Sins from the past become a Biblical reckoning of both family and identity.
