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The Blind Season: Common Threads in the Life - Softcover

Donaghe, Ronald

 
9780595189762: The Blind Season: Common Threads in the Life

Synopsis

"Ronald L. Donaghe continues his series with a novel that excels both as a family and an action drama. Five years after the events of the novel Common Sons, young lovers Tom and Joel decide to start a family. The struggles they face come from unexpected sources, keeping readers guessing at the next obstacles or solutions. Donaghe delivers what should become a classic of gay literature."-Duane Simolke, author of The Acorn StoriesIn The Blind Season, the sequel to the best-selling novel Common Sons, Joel and his husband, Tom, decide to start a family. Knowing that two gay men will never be able to adopt, Joel and Tom decide to find a surrogate mother to carry their child. What they find is a lot more than they bargained for.Sharon Minninger, a beautiful and determined runaway from a Mennonite community near Nuevo Casas Grandes, Mexico, offers to carry their child. Her influence has more impact on their lives than the couple could ever have imagined.Joel and Tom discover that the backlash of their decision to be fathers is much worse than expected. They are unprepared for the venomous reaction from some of the less open-minded citizens of the small southwestern New Mexico town. Luckily, the two men have powerful allies in the battle over their child.

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About the Author

In addition to the best-selling Common Threads in the Life Series, Ronald L. Donaghe is published in several anthologies. His new series, The Continuing Journals of Will Barnett, is comprised of three books: Uncle Sean, Lance and All Over Him. Donaghe is also the author of two autobiographical works, including a collection of essays entitled Letters in Search of Love and a full-length autobiography about being openly gay in the United States Air Force during the waning days of the Vietnam War, My Year of Living Heterosexually.

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