Afterwards Author:Gina Berriault Hal O. Costigan, candidate for Congress, is the kind of man people envy. He has a loving wife, a supportive family, a devoted mother. Friendly, intelligent, successful, he is a man on the rise -- until he is caught in an affair with a high school girl and commits suicide. On election day the reporters have forgotten him, and the radio doesn't me... more »ntion his name. Around Hal's hometown, however, a handful of people continue lives that will be forever haunted by his memory. Mother, sister, brother, lover -- their futures all irrevocably changed by his death -- cannot find consolation in each other and seek it elsewhere. Gina Berriault charts the corrosive power of guilt and loneliness, showing how one terrible act can possess a family.« less