On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Roseand Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson'slife will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on tolead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunesdiverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version ofFerguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentiethcentury America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.