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A stranger on the planet: a novel

✍ Scribed by Adam Schwartz

Publisher
Soho Press
Year
2011
Tongue
en-US
Weight
177 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1616950536

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✦ Synopsis

A "touching and funny" novel of a dysfunctional family and one man's struggle to both get away from them and to hold them close (Publishers Weekly).

In the summer of 1969, twelve-year-old Seth lives with his unstable mother, Ruth, and his brother and sister in a two-bedroom apartment in New Jersey. His father lives with his new wife in a ten-room houseβ€”and has no interest in Seth and his siblings.

Seth is dying to escape from his mother's craziness and suffocating love, her marriage to a man she's known for two weeks, and his father's cold disregard. Over the coming decades, he will become the keeper of his family's memories and secretsβ€”at the same time emotionally isolating himself from all those who love him, especially his mother.

But Ruth is also Seth's muse, and as he stumbles through life, dating a lesbian and marrying a shiksa, their bond can never really be broken . . .

"Funny, honest and...

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