This is the story of a gun that hung on the wall and the son who fell in love and the miner who left to be a cop in Chicago. It is also the story of the son's younger brother, who outlived everyone in his family to tell what happened, how they adored the first-born Tony, how Tony found the prettiest girlfriend, strived to be a man, then fell away into a state of mind they did not foresee, and what it is like to remember them all--the house full and poor, their mother praying in Croatian, their immigrant father leading rough track-gang workers in the widest open iron ore pit in the world.-- Back cover.