Readers of Mad Honey will adore this clever, deeply touching, buoyant new novel from an award-winning author. 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.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
Author : Bart Yates
Pages : 246 pages
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ISBN-10 : 9781496741240
ISBN-13 : 9781496741240