Sarah abandons her family to search for her biological mother, while her husband takes off across country in pursuit, leaving their son to stay behind with his in-laws. Reprint.
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Frederick Busch (1941–2006) received the PEN/Malamud Award in short fiction, and, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Award of Merit. His books were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Awards.
OUR MOTHER?" The headline screams out to Sarah from the pages of the personal ads. Suddenly seized with an "emergency feeling," she abandons her husband, Barrett, and their six-year-old son, Stephen, to search for her biological mother in rural Pennyslvania. Barrett, convinced through intuition that Sarah has gone to Santa Fe, deposits Stephen with his in-laws and sets off in hot pursuit. From these separate journeys begins a chain of events in which individual memories send a family in desperate search of itself--and the shattering truth that awaits them....
From the author of Closing Arguments.
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