Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet hes still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. Hes still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved along with their children to Connecticut. But Frank is happy enough in his work and pursuing various civic and entrepreneurial sidelines. He has high hopes for this 4th of July weekend a search for a house for deeply hapless clients relocating to Vermont a rendezvous on the Jersey shore with his girlfriend then up to Connecticut to pick up his larcenous and emotionally troubled teenage son and visit as many sports halls of fame as they can fit into two days. Franks Independence Day, however, turns out not as hed planned, and this decent, appealingly bewildered, profoundly observant man is wrenched, gradually and inevitably, out of his private refuge.
