The Sleeping Father

Description:

A young brother and sister try to rehabilitate their father on their own after he slips into a drug-induced coma and then emerges suffering from brain damage, in a novel that addresses the crisis in authority and faith in American families.

subjects: Antidepressants,  Brain damage,  Divorced fathers,  Fiction,  Jewish families,  Parent and child,  Patients,  Side effects,  Teenagers,  Fiction, psychological,  Jews, fiction,  New York Times reviewed,  Parent and teenager,  Fiction, general,  Parent and child, fiction