The Half-Life

The discovery of two skeletons during the filming of a movie in the Pacific Northwest intertwines the lives of two pairs of friends, separated by generations--Cookie Figowitz, the cook for a party of fur trappers in the 1820s, and fugitive Henry Brown; and teenager Tina Plank, unhappily living in a 1980s commune, and her friend, Trixie Volterra, a young girl with a troubled past. A first novel. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.