The mulvaneys of high point farm in mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed with good looks, abundant charisma, and boundless promise. But over the twenty-five year span of this ambitious novel, th...The mulvaneys of high point farm in mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed with good looks, abundant charisma, and boundless promise. But over the twenty-five year span of this ambitious novel, the mulvaneys will slide, almost imperceptibly at first, from the pinnacle of happiness, transformed by the vagaries of fate into a scattered collection of lost and lonely souls.it is the youngest son, judd, now an adult, who attempts to piece together the fragments of the mulvaneys' former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that occasioned the family's tragic downfall.