《东霓》和《西决》一样，还是在讲发生在那个永远的龙城的，郑家人的故事。但是不同于西决的隐忍，东霓是个活色声香的女人。这本《西决》的姐妹篇，却完全转换了主人公以及第一人称叙述的视角，呈现出来一个东霓眼中完全不同的郑家，完全不同的世界。东霓是一个经历坎坷、自私势利，却又坚韧勇敢、情深似海的女人。残酷的生活教会她精明和算计，但是在真正紧要的转折点上，她却依然把自己交付给生命深处燃烧着的冲动和本能。所以她才要不择手段地和前夫争夺，所以她机关算尽却把自己绕了进去，所以她才能勇敢地用伤痕累累的心热切地去爱，所以她才能只是因为一时冲动，给真正最关心她的人留下永远难以磨灭的伤害。
故事结尾处，东霓放弃了很多，失去了很多，唯一剩下的，却还是她的勇气和热情。她带着自己的秘密重新出发了，龙城依旧是个静默的古老城市，这一次，变成了一个荒凉的戏台，东霓粉墨登场，像个张扬的花旦，在万里晴空之下，上演了一出古老的戏码：北方，有佳人。

"In me are the memories of a boy's life, spent in that realm of enchantments. These are the things I want to tell you...."Robert McCammon delivers "a tour de force of storytelling" ("BookPage") in his award-winning masterpiece, a novel of Southern boyhood, growing up in the 1960s, that reaches far beyond that evocative landscape to touch readers universally."Boy's Life" is a richly imagined, spellbinding portrait of the magical worldview of the young -- and of innocence lost.Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him. From an ancient mystic who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown -- for his father's sanity and his own life hang in the balance....