It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high
school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers, rock and
roll, and-unbeknownst to anyone else-a boy in his class with thick
eyelashes and a bad attitude. His mother Eileen died two years
earlier when her car plunged into the icy waters of the Mississippi
River, and since then Kevin's relationship with his father Patrick
has become increasingly distant. As lonely women vie for his father's
attention, Kevin discovers Patrick's own closely guarded secret: he
had planned to abandon his family for another woman. More
disturbingly, his mother's death may well have been a suicide, not an
accident.
Complicating the family dynamic is the constant
meddling of Kevin's outspoken Aunt Nora-who will never forgive
Patrick for Eileen's death-along with Patrick's inability to stay
single for very long. His loyalties divided between his father and
his aunt, between his internal reality and his public persona, Kevin
is forced to reevaluate his notions of family and love as painful
truths emerge about both.
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