The power of that guilt weighs heavily upon Joe and will demand a resolution of its own. Throughout the novel, Joe has to intercede to protect his brother and is conflicted every time he has to once again leave his brother behind. Joe is torn by the guilt of going to college and abandoning his brother. To complicate things, Joe's bipolar, alcoholic mother has taken up with a low-life who hits Joe's eighteen-year-old autistic brother. Carl agrees to tell Joe his story, and Joe sets out to unravel the tapestry of the thirty-year-old murder. At a nursing home he meets Carl Iverson, a man dying of cancer who has been medically paroled after spending thirty years in prison for the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl. The Life We Bury tells the story of Joe Talbert, a junior at the University of Minnesota, who receives a class assignment to write a biography of someone who has lived an interesting life.
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