In Who Can Know the Heart, Henry adopts an alternate identity that he wears like a suit of armor.  Henry as Wizard acts like everything is illusion, the world obscured, everyone doubled, split.  A consequence of the back-story: the reckless acquisition of mineral rights for the burgeoning steel industry, Wizard tells riddle-like prophetic tales from his memory box of sentimental and found treasure. The mysterious tin box is the thread that runs throughout the novel, weaving together three generations.  Soren, his daughter, lives as if everything is exactly as it seems, life without randomness, only a ripple effect and her father’s box of leavings more evidence that everything is connected. To Sara, his granddaughter, life is tumbling chaos. She perceives everything and nothing is connected, that she is the product of everything and nothing. Moreover, she assumes people only think they know each other because it makes them feel better.