So long, see you tomorrow - William Maxwell

In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity
of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of
us every time we try.
On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm
in rural Illinois.
A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed.
And the tenuous friendship
between two lonely teenagers-one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm
boy-has been shattered.Fifty years later, one of those boys-now a grown man-tries
to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder.
In doing so, he is inevitably
drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of
Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator
can only guess at.
Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the
destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic
of youth and loss.