TRADE PAPERBACK - 526 pages: A FAMILY ROMANCE is a novel duology. Two converging stories, first separately published as "What the Tiger Said" and "Nebraska's Map, " subsume themes from William Blake's poetry, search among the mysteries and manners of Flannery O'Conner for that "peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet, " and challenge the psychoanalytic and spiritual notions of what a family can be.