Door-Man

The Door-Man is a big, deep, beautiful book that ponders the mysteries of identity and existence--where we're from and what we are, and the hidden forces that bind people together and drive them apart. Peter Wheelwright has written a riveting multi-generational saga that is also a meditation on time itself-what it gives and what it takes, and ultimately, what endures."-Catherine Chung, author of Forgotten Country and The Tenth Muse
"Like Richard Powers and Barbara Kingsolver, Peter Matthiessen Wheelwright renders the inextricable connection between natural history and human history in this beautifully layered and richly imagined novel."

-Paula Closson Buck, Author of Summer on the Cold War Planet
"A suspenseful reflection on identity and memory, with their unsparing strangeness and dreamlike fragility, The Door-Man intimates that while time does not heal all, it does elicit forgiveness. Wheelwright reminds us that, like memory itself, life does not progress steadily without opposition, but occurs in unexpected leaps and bounds, seemingly random and always incomplete. A complex and thoughtful book."-Susanna Moore, Author of In the Cut and Miss Aluminum-A Memoir
"Good fiction opens new dimensions and perspectives on our existence, and Peter Wheelwright opens many in The Door-Man in a gripping three-generation saga of an extended family that includes murder, incest, bastard siblings, and all kinds of other skeletons in the closet. A frothy bouillabaisse of narrative history and imaginative storytelling."