Resumen:

The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe : Uncas Metcalfe is a sixty-five-year-old botany professor from a once-prosperous central New York town whose habitat is changing much too quickly: His wife is ill, his daughter has returned home, and an unusual new friendship unexpectedly stirs up memories of an almost forgotten infidelity. Uncas is rooted in a life of plants and manners. when his routine is upended by the menacing demands of a former student, he finds his comfortably obstinate nature at odds with his family's growing impatience - and a newfound, terrifying uncertainty.