The friends of meager fortune
Mary Jameson, the widow of a lumber magnate, hopes to stymie the prophecy she receives from a fortune-tellerthat her oldest son will be powerful and her younger son will bring glory upon the family, but they will be the end of the family. When Will Jameson, the brash older brother, suffers a fatal logging accident, and Owen, the intellectual younger son, returns a wounded hero from WWII, it seems the prophecy may come true. Set in postwar New Bru...