Valley of the Shadow Author:Christopher Davis With simple clarity and enormous emotional power, Christopher Davis's new novel tells a story of great love and great tragedy. It is a story about AIDS and two young men who have it, a story about their love and about what it is like for the young to die. But it is also a story of flawless summer days and starlit nights, of mountain lakes and bl... more »ue-white Maine winters, a story of parents and children and families and holidays, and of the tangled web of love and loss and loyalty that is our life. Beautifully written, with a poet's eye for the singular detail, Valley of the Shadow is sad and funny and consoling, a wise book of serene courage and extraordinary, crystal beauty.« less