The Coffin Maker's Son is a novel about fathers, sons, friends, and the ghosts of each. It is a fictional biograpy, but of a man haunted by people that pass through his life as easily as shadows, or reflections passing in a mirror, never to be recaptured. It is written with a voice- no, an ear- to three verb tenses. Each chapter presents to varying degrees, and in each of these three tenses, a tale of a man's fate, the whisper of the supernatural, and the riddle of fathers. So, it is a novel of three losses then, and in three repetitions, each sent echoing through time from the begining of the novel through to its conclusion.