Dorothy Speak is a writer of unmistakable storytelling powers; a mesmerizing conjurer of the human heart. In these nine diamond-hard stories she writes with insight and honesty about women in love and the choices they must make when they find themselves loving what they cannot have.
Your Father Sends His Love: Stories
โ Scribed by Evers, Stuart
- Book ID
- 108992382
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 130 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780393285161
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โฆ Synopsis
Your Father Sends His Love heralds the powerful American debut of a bold new literary talent.
Stuart Evers writes with uncanny psychological acuity. The inventive, elegant stories in Your Father Sends His Love illuminate the precarious and electrifying connections between parents and children. Evers's unforgettable characters long to repair relationships that have faltered or that never quite began. A single father goes to jail for avenging a hate crime perpetrated against his gay son; a mother returns home to her husband and children after an affair; an aging grandfather mediates between his quarreling son and granddaughter; a man waits at the pub, frantically listing things he might say to a suffering friend.
With wit, subtlety, and uncommon sensitivity, Evers captures those pivotal moments between parents and children when emotions are urgently felt yet impossible to express. In this, he explores new realms of passion and estrangement. With his precise,...
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