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A family with an abusive father, a sensitive son, and a mother out of her depth: we see them when Michael is about 12 and when hes in his 30s, a writer of romance novels, going home for his mother and sisters college graduations. We go back and forth between the two periods: when Michael is a boy, the pressure builds to the point when the thin thread keeping them as a family threatens to break, and theres a fight. During Michaels trip home, theres an unexpected death which prolongs his stay and brings to the light his relationship with his father, his aunt, and her young children. Michaels estranged wife joins them for the funeral.
Michael Taylor is a New York based author of romance novels. The bend toward what is generally regarded as a female genre may be due to the strong relationship he has with his mother, Lisa Taylor, and in large part a measure of survival against his tyrannical father, English professor Charles Taylor. The problems he has with his father stems from as far back as childhood, when he would do things purposefully to set his father off, knowing that some sort of retribution would be coming. Michael also has a strong relationship with his only slightly older aunt, Lisas sister Jane, who lived with them one summer, the year Michaels sister Ryne was born. Michael and Janes bond was also a joint front, similarly subversive, against Charles. Michael has divorced his wife Kelly, something he has told no one in the family except Jane. Michaels trip home to celebrate Lisa and Rynes graduation from college changes due to unexpected circumstances which add an extra dimension to Michaels confusion about his feelings toward his family. Michaels latest book, an exposé of the family masquerading as fiction and meant as a means to cleanse himself from his past, is currently sitting with the publisher, although he has given Jane an advance copy of the manuscript. His mother, the glue that held the family together, kept many of the issues of the family solely to herself. However, Michael stumbles across some materials among his mothers belongings that may provide a road to reconciliation, and not only with Charles.
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