EAN: 9781496741257

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When his difficult mother is diagnosed with ALS a sharp-witted yet sensitive artist reluctantly returns to his New Hampshire hometown – and all the ghosts he left behind.Fans of Andrew Sean Greer Bryan Washington and Jonathan Tropper will adore this outrageously funny deeply touching buoyant novel from the award-winning author of Leave Myself Behind. As it turns out you can go home again. But sometimes you really really don’t want to . . . Home for Noah York is Oakland New Hampshire the sleepy little town where Noah’s mother Virginia had a psychotic breakdown and Noah got beaten to a pulp as a teenager. Then there were the good times—and Noah’s not sure which ones are more painful to recall. Now thirty-seven and eking out a living as an artist in Providence Rhode Island Noah looks much the same—and swears just as colorfully—as he did in high school. Virginia has become a wildly successful poet who made him the subject of her most famous poem The Lost Soul ” a label Noah will never live down. And J.D. the one who got away—because Noah stupidly drove him away—is in a loving marriage with a successful attractive man whom Noah despises wholeheartedly. Is it any surprise Noah wishes he could ignore his mother’s summons to come visit? But Virginia has shattering news to deliver and a request he can’t refuse. Soon Noah will track down the sister and extended family he never knew existed try to keep his kleptomaniac cousin out of jail feud with a belligerent neighbor confront J.D.’s jealous husband—and face J.D. himself the ache from Noah’s past that never fades. . . . All the while contending with his brilliant unpredictable mother.

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