East Texas college professor Wyatt Sallow travels to a down-at-its-heels market town in the north of England to trace an ancestry it turns out he does not have. On his eight-day tour/pilgrimage/mock epic journey, Wyatt pursues the specter of his unrequited love and crosses paths with the citizens of Sallowsfield as they struggle to grasp the all-consuming obsessions, ghosts, and X-factors that confound their days.
Part of The Sabine Series in Literature