Homes, A. M

Story of the correspondence between a convicted pedophile in his twenty-third year of prison and a nineteen-year-old co-ed who is attracted to young boys and especially one twelve-year-old boy.

Disconnected from the outside world until a health scare and a sink hole in his yard force him to forge new relationships, middle-aged Richard Novak finds his life changed by a doughnut shop owner, a kidnapped woman, and a counterculture icon.

Fifteen-year-old Jack's confused feelings for his father, who left him and his mother four years earlier, are further complicated when he finds that his father is gay.

Novelist A. M. Homes describes her troubling experiences meeting her biological parents at the age of thirty-one after her birth mother, who conceived her during an affair with an older, married man, sought her out--and even stalked her--and describes her search for more information on both her biological and adoptive parents' lives and families after her birth mother's sudden death.

Novelist A. M. Homes describes her troubling experiences meeting her biological parents at the age of thirty-one after her birth mother, who conceived her during an affair with an older, married man, sought her out--and even stalked her--and describes her search for more information on her both her biological and adoptive parents' lives and families after her birth mother's sudden death.

Fifteen-year-old Jack's confused feelings for his father, who left him and his mother four years earlier, are further complicated when he finds that his father is gay.