Book Description
for The Sin Eater by Gary D. Schmidt
From the Publisher
After Cole's mother dies, he and his father go to live with his mother's parents in tiny Albion, New Hampshire. The Emersons and their jam-packed old farmhouse make it easier for Cole to get through his sadness - but his father is withdrawing into a private grief, almost disappearing. Helpless in the face of his father's depression, Cole turns to Albion itself, and the old stories he learns brings the past to life. But can these stories help him deal with the present?--Cover.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.