And when, all these years later, a new friend in San Francisco offers Aaron a way to locate his mother, his past and present collide, forcing Aaron to rethink his place in the world. But Aaron’s sense of rejection runs deep: when Aaron was seventeen, Dolores-his loving yet selfish and enigmatic mother-vanished one night. But soon after establishing himself in San Francisco, Aaron sees that real freedom will not come until he has made peace with his memories of Mortonville, Minnesota-a cramped town whose four hundred souls form a constellation of Aaron’s childhood heartbreaks and hopes.Īfter Aaron’s father died in the town parade, it was the larger-than life misfits of his childhood who helped Aaron find his place in a world hostile to difference. After twenty years under the Pygmalion-like care of his older partner, Walter, Aaron at last decides it is time to take control of his own fate. Sensitive, bighearted, and achingly self-conscious, forty-year-old Aaron Englund long ago escaped the confinements of his Midwestern hometown, but he still feels like an outcast. The debut novel from award-winning author Lori Ostlund-“smart, resonant, and imbued with beauty” ( Publishers Weekly) that “provides considerable pleasure and emotional power” ( The New York Times Book Review)-about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a tragicomic road trip deep into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhood.
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