Mothers and sons : a novel / Adam Haslett.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Haslett, Adam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Mothers and sons--Fiction.
• Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
• Lawyers--Fiction.
• Single men--Fiction.
• Gay men--Fiction.
• Political refugees--Fiction.
• Asylum, Right of--Fiction.
• New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

Genre:

• Legal fiction (Literature)
• Novels.
• Fiction.

Physical Description:

323 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Little Brown and Company, 2025.

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, wh o 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.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

• 9780316574716
• 0316574716

OCLC:

1483001200