{"product_id":"american-fallout-9781939650429","title":"American Fallout","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Avery Cullins—library archivist, former teenage runaway, and gay man from a small Southern town—”family” means a live-in boyfriend and a surly turtle. But when his father, a renowned nuclear physicist, commits suicide, Avery’s decade-long estrangement from his mother, now hobbled following a stroke, comes to a skidding halt. With his boyfriend’s help, Avery takes custody of his mother and the trio heads cross country in a rented U-Haul, back to an apartment in Cleveland and an uncertain future. Their journey soon becomes a pilgrimage into the past when Avery begins sifting through his mother’s mementos. What emerges is a story of family, love, and loss as his parents made a home, lost a child, and tested the boundaries of marital love in the 1970s. Meanwhile, in today’s uncertain social landscape, Avery must confront his own struggle with a mother who doesn’t recognize him and a lover who seeks to claim him for his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Compulsively readable. The writing is keenly observed and the characters feel as true and vivid as any I've found in a long time. Simply put: this is a really great book.\" --Matthew Norman, author, Domestic Violets","brand":"Santa Fe Writer's Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53192132723031,"sku":"9781939650429","price":13.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-fallout-9781939650429","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}