In contemporary San Francisco, an extended family is
transformed by the emerging breakdown of a troubled adolescent boy.
The lives of Christopher's mother, Nan; her lover, Marina; his gay
father, Hal; and Hal's new love interest are pushed to the edge by
Christopher's strange behavior, by something new in him that
mystifies them all. When he runs away, far into the woods of northern
California, their assumptions about themselves and one another are
severely tested. They might not, they discover, be quite as modern as
they once thought. Even Christopher's gift to Marina of three dried
seahorses rattles unnervingly to announce a time like no other.
This
is a book about love at the very edge, about the things people do out
of love that have both redemptive and disastrous consequences, often
at the same time. It's about the unexpected risks of intimacy. It
shows how families shatter and re-form under duress; it asks
difficult questions that have all the tough complexity of real life.
Devastating truths are revealed in the answers.
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