Captain Nitwit

About the Book

“You nitwit!”

These aren’t Faye Wallace’s last words, but they are the last ones her husband understands. A few hours later, Faye is dead, and Toby is a widower, beset by new and incomprehensible problems. Was Faye really leaving him, as his sister-in-law claims? Why do his daughters suddenly accuse him of behavior he can’t even bring himself to imagine? Everyone seems to be misinterpreting him, including some of the long-time customers who patronize his shoe store. Through it all, his sister stands by him. Then she too appears to doubt him.

Set in Massachusetts and California, Captain Nitwit is a gently comic but disturbing coming-of-age novel, encompassing the 55th year of a man to whom, until now, nothing much has happened

About the Author

Born and raised in Southern California, C.D. Hopkins has lived over half her life in Massachusetts. Short fiction of hers has been published in The Massachusetts Review, The Quarterly, Room of One's Own qnd Per Se. She is the author of a novel, Trading Husbands.