"Readers will be glad to know that another book from Walter Roers, author of The Pact . . . has finally arrived. Roers centers his second novel, Pathos Rising, around the friendships of four men in a story narrated by Hank Blaine . . . Hank's moral core has been upended by the death of his son-in-law in Iraq. Beneath his Minnesota-nice exterior is a man who struggles [. . .] Roers's characters have lingered on in my memory long after I read the final page . . . Every book club that has ever read The Pact will want to read Pathos Rising."-Maureen Millea Smith, Minnesota Book Award-winning author of When Charlotte Comes Home