parent and adult child

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Intervention

a novel
2009

Promises to keep

2010
Callie Perry, a successful family photographer living in upstate New York, and her younger sister, Steffi, a free spirit who works as a vegan chef in Manhattan, receive shocking news that summons them to a summer in Maine and changes their lives forever.

The time of our singing

2003
On Easter Day, 1939, David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia negro studying to be a concert singer, and their mutual love of music draws them together and against everyone's advice, they marry, not realizing the violence and prejudice they and their children will be forced to endure.

All I need to get by

2004
Crita Carter, a successul tax accountant in Manhattan, returns to her small hometown in Ohio when her father becomes ill and finds herself once again trying to deal with the problems she believed she had left behind, including her brother's drug addiction, and a never-forgotten lover.

Gasa-gasa girl

2005
Mas Arai finds himself thrown into a series of unfamiliar situations when his daughter, who lives a world away in New York City, calls and asks her father for help.

Crazy as chocolate

a novel
2002
Izzy and Ellie felt both shame and pride in their loony mother's crazy stunts, but when she commited suicide on her forty-first birthday, the young girls' lives were shattered, and as they reach their own forty-first birthdays, they must come to terms with their mother's legacy.

The corrections

2002
In this satirical look at the American family, a Midwestern mother named Enid, whose husband is losing his mind to Parkinson's disease and whose grown, self-destructive children are facing their own problems, attempts to arrange a happy family Christmas.

The book of Joe

2004
Joe Goffman, a successful writer who has just had his novel turned into a hit movie, returns to his hometown only to realize his friends and family feel betrayed and insulted at how they were portrayed in his book.

Liars and saints

a novel
2003
Four generations of the Catholic Santerre family struggle to navigate a succession of life-altering events which have dramatic consequences for later generations.

Not me

a novel
2005
Stand-up comic Michael Rosenheim, caring for his Alzheimer's afflicted father, Heshel, begins a search for the truth about himself and his parents after reading Heshel's journals and learning that his father was a Nazi accountant at Bergen-Belsen who assumed the identity of dead Jewish inmate near the end of World War II, and has been living the lie ever since.

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