Synopses & Reviews
From the highly praised author of
All I Could Get (“Utterly engrossing, harrowing, and, yes, fun. Scott Lasser’s
All I Could Get is all you could want.”—Richard Russo) a powerful, absorbing new novel about bloodlines and inheritance and what holds families together.
On September 10, 2001, Kyle tells his sister, Cat, that he believes he has fathered a son. The next day both Kyle and the boy’s mother head off to work and are never heard from again. Cat—a single mother of a young son—sets out to find her brother’s orphaned child. Nearly a year later, that search is still under way when her father, Sam, asks Cat to come to California for the anniversary of her brother’s death. But he has another motive as well: to reveal a secret he’s kept from her all her life.
Cat’s journey toward her father and her brother’s infant son, and Sam’s journey toward his daughter, his lost son, and a new relationship to both his future and his past drive this superbly realized novel about families and about how we live with the mysteries and ambiguities that inhere in our most primal relations. With marvelous economy and restraint, Scott Lasser captures the complexities of home and heritage, the bonds of blood, and the bonds of life and love. A richly resonant, exceptionally graceful, deeply affirming new novel from an abundantly gifted writer.
Synopsis
The story of a womans search for her brothers lost son, orphaned in the wake of his sudden death, drives Scott Lassers riveting new novel—a work of stunning economy and momentum about a womans quest and a familys longing for wholeness and completion.
Cat is a single mother living in Detroit when her brother is killed in New York, and she sets off in search of his child. Her search is still under way when she gets a call from her father. Sam is eighty and carrying the weight of a secret he has kept from her all her life. He asks Cat to visit him in California, intending to make his peace.
Cats journey—toward her father, and her brothers infant son—and Sams journey toward his daughter, his lost son, and a new relationship to both his future and his past are woven into this superbly realized novel about families and the mysteries and ambiguities that inhere in our most primal relations. The result is a deeply stirring work that explores the complexities of home and heritage, and the bonds that even death is powerless to diminish.
Synopsis
From the highly praised author of "All I Could Get" comes a powerful, absorbing new novel about a family after 9/11 and the complexities of bloodlines, home, and heritage.
About the Author
Scott Lasser is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the University of Michigan, and the Wharton School. His novels include Battle Creek and All I Could Get. A native of Detroit, he lives with his family in Aspen, Colorado.