MOTHERS AND SONS

A mother and son estranged for many years reckon at last with the secret that has kept them apart in this highly anticipated novel by one of the most talented American writers of his generationAt 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 assortme