The old man is time shifting narrative is Tiny pennington, a retired Wisconsin lawman ruminating on his life long obsession with Maggie Butler a dark-haired devil of a girl who ran with every man in town except the one who loved her best. No voice pitched to the intimacy of a whisper, Pennington takes us back to the summer of 1960, when, as a youngster's deputy and Kickapoo falls, he discovers Maggie and her husband, Stark naked and shot to death, lying in a mysterious crop circle in the middle of a wheat field.. was making actually dabbling in the dark arts, or does her avately erotic nature just seem evil to penitentin, a sexually repressed lawyer caught up in the seduction of memory? Like all Nostalgia tinged memories, his are no more to be trusted than our own.