The round barn

"Suzi Wizowaty weaves multiple story lines, told in a variety of voices, around the acquisition and relocation of a historic round barn by a museum in northern Vermont. Wizowaty creates a range of characters - men and women, gay and straight - who wrestle with the consequences of frustrated desires.". "They include Tuesday Bailey, chief of buildings and grounds for the museum, who suffers from unrequited love for his cousin and childhood companion Mary, now the wife of the owner of the general store. Mary herself has suffered from a lifelong spiritual yearning, but just as she has settled on…