Mari Tomasi

This richly realistic story which takes place in Barre, Vt. in the decades preceeding WWII is told through the eyes of a penniless, frail but sharp-witted immigrant schoolteacher, Mr. Tiff. He watches and reflects as his friends and family engage in the drama of life - marriage, birth and death - yet who never speak of the fear that is always with them, that of the granite dust that kills the stonemasons who make their living in the sheds.