Mark Paxson

The Irrepairable Past Mark Paxson

Driven away by an unresolvable conflict with his father, Henry Thornton has spent a lifetime away from his childhood home. A life filled with sorrow and loss. A life that led him back to that childhood home, on the shores of Sullivan Bay, as his father lay dying, and where he wants nothing more than to be left alone, accompanied in his life only by an egret that graces him with its presence each evening. The Irrepairable Past is Henry Thornton's story. Through his motherless childhood and the destruction of his relationship with his father, his high school sweetheart and his decisions which led to her fleeing his side, a failed marriage, his father's death, the Irrepairable Past traces Henry's life of regrets and loss and his acceptance of a life alone, where he views the egret in the shallows as his only real friend.