Abstract:
"At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann, his mother, who runs a women's retreat center she founded after leaving his father, is hurt by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago put behind her the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter's case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart. With unsurpassed emotional depth, Mothers and Sons reveals all that is lost by looking away from the past and the love that might be restored by facing it."--Inside front jacket flap.
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Author:
Haslett, Adam, author.
Author, for Grouping:
Haslett, Adam,
Availability:
Sierra Vista Public Library~1
Database Key:
u673860
Document ID:
SD_ILS:673860
Edition:
First edition.
Author:
Haslett, Adam, author.
First Subject value, for Searching:
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Title:
Mothers and sons : a novel
Format:
Book
Genre:
ISBN:
9780316574716
Language:
English
Number Available:
1
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
323 pages ; 25 cm
Preferred Shelf Number:
F HASLETT
Publication Date:
2025
Publication Date as Range:
2025
Relevance Sort Field:
2025
Reverse Author:
Adam, author. Haslett
Subject:
Mothers and sons -- Fiction. |
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction. |
Lawyers -- Fiction. |
Single men -- Fiction. |
Gay men -- Fiction. |
Political refugees -- Fiction. |
Fiction. |
Subsequent Subject values, for Searching:
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Lawyers -- Fiction.
Single men -- Fiction.
Gay men -- Fiction.
Political refugees -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Summary:
"At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann, his mother, who runs a women's retreat center she founded after leaving his father, is hurt by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago put behind her the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter's case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart. With unsurpassed emotional depth, Mothers and Sons reveals all that is lost by looking away from the past and the love that might be restored by facing it."--Inside front jacket flap.
Title:
Mothers and sons : a novel
Title, for Grouping:
Mothers and sons :