RISING SONS: CONFRONTING TRAGEDY – FICTION
In My Darling Boy: A Novel, John Dufresne tells the story of Olney, whose beloved son Cully collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of South Florida. Aided by his terminally ill girlfriend and the colorful inhabitants of a local motel, Olney sets out to save his son from becoming another fatality of the opioid crisis. In Adam Haslett’s Mothers and Sons: A Novel, an estranged mother and son must confront the shared secret that tore them apart years before. As the son, an asylum lawyer, works on an emotional case, it plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and a night of violence that changed his life. Sam Sussman’s Boy from the North Country: A Novel centers on the relationship between Evan and his dying mother, June. He’s been called to her side from his life abroad, unaware of many things: her condition, the identity of his biological father, her romance with Bob Dylan, or why she left New York City for a farmhouse. Her answers are a startling gift from an extraordinary woman. Moderated by Jamie Betesh Carter, Jewish Book Council.
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Buy My Darling Boy: A Novel – Dufresne
Buy Mothers and Sons: A Novel – Haslett
Buy Boy from the North Country: A Novel – Sussman
