In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographingthe last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses dueto debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertentlycaused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to fleehis father and step-mother in New York 7 years ago. What keeps him inFlorida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, butwhen her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides toprotect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat toprepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father thathe has been avoiding for years. Pulsing with the energy of Auster'sprevious novel, "Invisible", "Sunset Park" is as mythic as it iscontemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It isabove all, a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men andwomen, but also between fathers and sons.