Washoe County Library System

Twenty years ago, "Erich" Hofmann volunteered to take his older brother's name after the other Erich committed suicide. "When Willy and Lorna Hofmann's seventeen-year-old son, Erich, commits suicide in 1969, his younger brother asks to be called by the dead boy's name. Already deeply affected by more than two years of separation and darkly comical disarray, his mother, father, and older sister accept the offer, setting in motion an unspoken conspiracy...