Bøger af Robb Forman Dew

"ASTONISHINGLY MOVING...The Family Heart is a tough and challenging work, for it reminds us that empathy is a humble but radical virtue, if lived."--USA Today" I'm gay.' Every day, parents around the world hear those words from their children. Most are utterly unprepared for them. By writing The Family Heart, Robb Forman Dew has done such parents an extraordinary service."--The Washington Post Book World"TOUCHINGLY WRITTEN."--The Boston Globe"At the heart of this memoir lies a true epiphany: the author's sudden, galvanizing awareness of the suicidal consequences of homophobia. It is a chilling moment, and it is described with a writer's eloquence and a mother's rage....Dew's intense imagination, combined with her ignorance of homosexuality, was as much a hindrance as a help, and it is to her credit that she has recorded the occasionally wacky assumptions and painful readjustments of her own odyssey with such care and humor."--The New Yorker"POETIC, HONEST."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram"Eloquent and absorbing...The true testament of Mrs. Dew and her husband as parents, and the most powerful moments of this inspiring memoir, occur when they come out' to their community as parents of a gay child....Though Mrs. Dew imparts a lot of self-gained wisdom in this perceptive and beautifully articulated story, in the end she realizes she has something she has always had--a strong loving family and two good sons."--The Dallas Morning News"AMEN FROM ANY MOTHER, EVERY MOTHER."--Anna Quindlen The New York Times

Claudia and Avery Park, lovers since high school, are now in their 30s. Intelligent and charming, they seem to be the ideal couple. However, they are casually yet cruelly oblivious to the ways in which their words and actions affect other people, most particularly their own 11-year-old daughter.

This story explores themes of familial and romantic bonds as it tells of a woman whose husband stays behind in New England while she and their children spend the summer in her Midwestern hometown.

Summer 1991, the Howells family are revisited in a small academic town in Massachusetts. Dinah and Martin's middle son Toby died six years ago. David, 18, is about to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity.

Set against the landscape of a turn-of-the-century small mid-western town, this is a romance of the close ties of childhood, of new love, of ambition and of family myth.

From National Book Award winner Robb Forman Dew, a masterful novel about a woman finding a new life for herself and her grown children after her husband's death.

From the National Book Award winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death, a gorgeously rendered story about a woman starting anew in the middle of her life