AustLit

First to suburban Connecticut, where a young blue-collar man on the way to his mother's funeral falls in with an upper-crust couple who lavish attention on him and pull him into unexpected dilemmas. Then to Australia's Torres Strait, where a charismatic but troublesome stranger washes ashore into the thick of a struggle for a tiny island's very identity. Then to Vietnam - vintage Caputo territory - where a squad of misfits plunge deep into the jungle in search of the body of their mess sergeant, who has been carried off by a tiger.