A seahorse year

Description:

In this “profound, heart-wrenching, and resonant” Lambda Award–winning novel, a quintessentially modern family is transformed by the mental breakdown of their adolescent son (Francisco Goldman). When Christopher disappears from his San Francisco home, his extended family comes together in a frantic search. But the sixteen-year-old is in much more trouble than they know, and their attempts to both support and save him will challenge their assumptions about themselves and one another. In “unflinching prose that’s both descriptive and soulful,” Stacey D’Erasmo explores the ways in which love moves us to actions that have both redemptive and disastrous consequences—sometimes in the same heartbeat (Time Out New York).

subjects: Runaway teenagers,  Teenage boys,  Problem youth,  Fiction,  Gay fathers,  Lesbian mothers,  LGBTQ novels,  Stonewall Book Awards,  Lambda Literary Awards,  Lambda Literary Award Winner,  San francisco (calif.), fiction,  Fiction, psychological,  Gay men, fiction,  At-risk youth,  Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction Winner,  Psychological fiction

Places: Northern California,  San Francisco (Calif.)