"Everybody's Son probes directly into the tender spots of race and
privilege in America. . . . With assured prose and deep insight
into the human heart, Umrigar explores the moral gray zone of what
parents, no matter their race, will do for love." - Celeste Ng,
author of Everything I Never Told You The bestselling, critically
acclaimed author of The Space Between Us deftly explores issues of
race, class, privilege, and power and asks us to consider
uncomfortable moral questions in this probing, ambitious,
emotionally wrenching novel of two families-one Black, one white.
During a terrible heat wave in 1991, ten-year-old Anton has been
locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days,
without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity, the
refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot, hungry, and desperate,
Anton shatters a window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the
broken glass, he is covered in blood when the police find him.
Juanita, his mother, is discovered in a crack house less than three
blocks away, nearly unconscious and half-naked. When she comes to,
she repeatedly asks for her baby boy. She never meant to leave
Anton-she went out for a quick hit and was headed right back, until
her drug dealer raped her and kept her high. Though the bond
between mother and son is extremely strong, Anton is placed with
child services while Juanita goes to jail. The Harvard-educated son
of a US senator, Judge David Coleman is a scion of northeastern
white privilege. Desperate to have a child in the house again after
the tragic death of his teenage son, David uses his power and
connections to keep his new foster son, Anton, with him and his
wife, Delores-actions that will have devastating consequences in
the years to come. Following in his adopted family's footsteps,
Anton, too, rises within the establishment. But when he discovers
the truth about his life, his birth mother, and his adopted
parents, this man of the law must come to terms with the moral
complexities of crimes committed by the people he loves most.
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