01854cam a2200325 i 4500 1834309992 TxAuBib 20241221120000.0 250106s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024940326 9780316574716 HRD 29.00 0316574716 HRD 29.00 TxAuBib rda Haslett, Adam, author. Mothers and sons : a novel / Adam Haslett. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. 323 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "At 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 center she founded after leaving his father, is hurt by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago put behind her 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, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart"--Publisher website. 20241231. jz. Gay men Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Life change events Fiction.