Carrie Brown

Seventy-five-year-old Conrad, left alone and grieving after the death of his wife, Rose, learns the precious lesson of reaching out to others, after he spreads the news that he has seen an angel in his overgrown garden.

At her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before: Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer; Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come home to convalesce. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and almost as quickly find themselves drawn into the orbit of the magisterial artist. But Kenneth is losing his eyesight, and when...