内容简介：
Three narrative voicesathree successive generations in one family, tell their own interconnected storiesaone story really, of the events that take place at one tarp shack in a woodlot, the archetypal secret hideout in the woods. Phil, a stroke victim, is imprisoned both in his wheelchair and in his own angry past. While fuming away towards final combustion in the nursing home, he bonds with his disaffected and alienated grandson, Jason. Both are wannabe dropouts, the one from life and the other from high school. Oneas anger is tempered by the otheras humour. Phil and Jason are connected through a middle generation, Fern. He is Philas son and Jasonas father, and he cannot bear to lose either of them, while trying to deal with the ghosts from his own past.