In 'Exes,' The Losses Pile Up Like New England Snowdrifts
Max Winter's bleak, powerful debut novel is haunted by missing people — and those who feel their absence. It centers around a man trying to piece together his estranged brother's last years.
Max Winter's powerful but bleak debut novel is about missing people: people who missing, and the sons, brothers, friends, lovers, and classmates who feel their absence and miss them. is propelled by the efforts of its troubled principal narrator, Clay Blackall, to piece together the last ten years of his younger brother Eli's life — which he missed because they were estranged. Launching his investigation five years after Eli's vehicular suicide, Clay
