His Mother's Son

His Mother's Son - Paperback

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His Mother's Son

His Mother's Son - Paperback

by Cai Emmons
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by Cai Emmons (Author)

To those who meet Jana Thomas, hers seems a perfect life, with a beautiful home, a successful career as an ER doctor, a loving husband, and a darling six-year-old son named Evan. But inside, Jana is crumbling. Evan's seemingly normal all-boy tendencies are escalating her motherly worry into something close to hysteria, threatening her job, her marriage, and even her relationship with her son.
The real source of Jana's disintegration is a past she has kept buried for sixteen years. When that past begins to bleed into the present, Jana is forced to plunge into the emotional whirlpool she left behind-with results that are shattering, profound, and wrenchingly moving.
Reminiscent of Sue Miller and Jane Hamilton, Cai Emmons's extraordinary first novel strikes a fine balance between keen psychological observation and page-turning momentum.

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Suspenseful, edgy, and exact, His Mother's Son explores the dark country between what we know and how we are nonetheless compelled to behave. Beautifully written, compulsively readable."--Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander
To those who meet Jana Thomas, hers seems a perfect life, with a beautiful home, a successful career as an ER doctor, a loving husband, and a lively six-year-old son named Evan. But inside, Jana is crumbling. Evan's seemingly normal all-boy tendencies are escalating her motherly worry into something close to hysteria, threatening her job, her marriage, and even her relationship with her son.
The real source of Jana's disintegration is a past she has kept buried for sixteen years. When that past begins to bleed into the present, Jana is forced to plunge into the emotional whirlpool she left behind with results that are shattering, profound, and wrenchingly moving.

"Emmons . . . has an eye for the grating intimacy of small-town life and a fine ear for suggestive metaphors. . . . Unusual and memorable."--The Economist

"Lovely writing . . . Emmons' emphasis is on her characters, and she draws them well."--Seattle Times

Cai Emmons has written for the stage, film, and television. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she teaches at the University of Oregon. She is the mother of a son.
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Number of Pages: 366
Dimensions: 0.93 x 8.49 x 5.51 IN
Publication Date: January 19, 2004
ISBN9780156028769
Author Cai Emmons
PublisherHarper Perennial
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2004
LanguageENG- English
Pages366
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Cai Emmons

Cai Emmons was the author of six novels: This Mother's Son, The Stylist, Weather Woman, Sinking Islands, Livid, and Unleashed, and one short story collection, Vanishing. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest, a Nautilus Award, and finalist for the Missouri Review Editor's Prize as well as the Narrative Magazine Fiction Prize, Emmons was also short-listed for the Sarton Award and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her essays and stories appeared in such publications as TriQuarterly, LitHub, Electric Literature, The LA Times, and Ms. Magazine. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College, Emmons held MFA degrees in film and fiction. She taught at several colleges and universities, most recently in the University of Oregon's Creative Writing Program. After living with ALS for two years, she ended her life using Oregon's Death with Dignity laws in January 2023.

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