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Title: Loving mother, painfully
Review: Richard McCann serves up a volume of inter-connected short stories that read like insightful memoir. The author's gentle, generous voice infuses this depiction of the lives of two coming-of-age gay brothers torn between love and loathing for a mother too preoccupied with her own myriad losses. What results is a Rorschach not only of homosexuality in America, but of the families from which we all emerge slightly battered, anxious to shuck the dysfunctional legacies of parents ill-equipped to deal with a shifting world, or the independent inner lives of their offspring.
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