Chronicles the thirty-seven years in the life of Ruth Cole, a complex, abrasive woman born in the shadow of her siblings' deaths and her parents' adultery, who only finds love after motherhood and widowhood. Reissue. (Tie-in to the Focus Films production of A Door in the Floor, written by Tod Williams, releasing July 2004, starring Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Mimi Rogers, & Bijou Phillips) (General Fiction)