The Lepidopterist's Son

When Nathan Delacorte passed away, his wife and son were left with the hundreds of butterflies he had spent his life collecting. But the collection was locked in storage in a fit of grief, and forgotten.After eight years, Alain and his mother are still reeling from the death, carving an existence between them of meek gestures and evasive silences. In all that time, nothing has changed. Until changes begin to come in the oddest of ways.It starts with the strange man who has materialized...
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When Nathan Delacorte passed away, his wife and son were left with the hundreds of butterflies he had spent his life collecting. But the collection was locked in storage in a fit of grief, and forgotten.After eight years, Alain and his mother are still reeling from the death, carving an existence between them of meek gestures and evasive silences. In all that time, nothing has changed. Until changes begin to come in the oddest of ways.It starts with the strange man who has materialized in all the old photographs of Alain's father. Next comes the discovery of his father's butterflies suddenly crumbled to dust. As Alain's bizarre adventures plunge him deeper into the emotions he never let himself experience, he must find the strength he did not know he had in order to survive.