The novel then switches back and forth between the two time periods, filling in the back story of the boys: the how-and-why one of them ended up in New York and the other stayed put in Montepulciano. The settings are somewhat stereotypical, in the way that what is described is what to...
March:Lambing season kicks off late in the month, when 130-plus frolicking babies make the farm look “like a playground full of first-graders,” Skokan says. He conducts all-night vigils on the coldest nights to assist birthing ewes and then coaxes the mothers and their newborns into the...