Death and the butterfly : a novel
(Book)

London, England, September 1940. Thirteen-year-old Susan McEwan and her older brother, Philliphimself a pilotwitness firsthand the initial Nazi bombing of civilian London. Weeks later, Phillips Sunderland bomber is shot down, and his family is wordlessly devastated. Toronto, Canada, the early 1980s. As a young couple struggles to survive the Reagan recession, the husband, Alexander Polo, is forced to take a job as a paperboy. When the wife, Julie, is expectant, Polo must now confront his future head-on and heart open. Montana, the first days of September 2001. In the midst of his wedding and 9/11, Jack Riordan discovers a magazine story written by Polo about Susan and airplanes and her love of the poems of Pablo Neruda.