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
centre she founded after leaving his father, is wounded by the
estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long
ago banished from her mind 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 forever, 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. In his spellbinding new novel, Adam Haslett
demonstrates yet again his mastery of “a rich assortment of literary
gifts” (New York Times).
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