โ Scribed by Scott Lasser
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EDITORIAL REVIEW:
The story of a womanโs search for her brotherโs lost son, orphaned in the wake of his sudden death, drives Scott Lasserโs riveting new novelโa work of stunning economy and momentum about a womanโs quest and a familyโs longing for wholeness and completion.Cat is a single mother living in Detroit when her brother is killed in New York, and she sets off in search of his child. Her search is still under way when she gets a call from her father. Sam is eighty and carrying the weight of a secret he has kept from her all her life. He asks Cat to visit him in California, intending to make his peace.Catโs journeyโtoward her father, and her brotherโs infant sonโand Samโs journey toward his daughter, his lost son, and a new relationship to both his future and his past are woven into this superbly realized novel about families and the mysteries and ambiguities that inhere in our most primal relations. The result is a deeply stirring work that explores the complexities of home and heritage, and the bonds that even death is powerless to diminish.
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: The story of a womans search for her brothers lost son, orphaned in the wake of his sudden death, drives Scott Lassers riveting new novela work of stunning economy and momentum about a womans quest and a familys longing for wholeness and completion.Cat is a single mother livin
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