Fractal

When sixty-two-year-old Malachi Walmsley learns that his mother has died, he travels from his residence in Flagstaff , Arizona, to his boyhood home in Covington, Louisiana, to settle her estateand its a large one. Estranged from his mother for forty years, Malachi wonders how authorities even knew how to find him.

As Malachi makes his journey, he tells his story and communicates via e-mail with the...