New Book Features An Obit Writer As The Protagonist

"If Claire had to look back and decide why she had the affair in the first place, she would point to the missing boy."

So begins "The Obituary Writer," a new book by Ann Hood. The story focuses on the lives of two women: one is an unhappy housewife living in the early 1960s, the other is an obituary writer living in 1919 and searching for her missing lover.

Described as part-literary mystery and part-love story, "The Obituary Writer" will be released on March 4.