With the deep emotion and insight of "a true storyteller" (Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times ), Christopher Tilghman, the author of the acclaimed Mason's Retreat and In a Father's Place , has written a powerful new novel of men and women, fathers and families. Eric Alwin has gone to visit his elderly father, a once commanding and charismatic Maryland senator who has seen his public service soured-and his family broken-by a sex scandal. Realizing that his own unfaithfulness, his disaffection with his career and marriage, ...
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With the deep emotion and insight of "a true storyteller" (Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times ), Christopher Tilghman, the author of the acclaimed Mason's Retreat and In a Father's Place , has written a powerful new novel of men and women, fathers and families. Eric Alwin has gone to visit his elderly father, a once commanding and charismatic Maryland senator who has seen his public service soured-and his family broken-by a sex scandal. Realizing that his own unfaithfulness, his disaffection with his career and marriage, seem to be a continuation of a family pattern, Eric is astonished to find his father proposing a bold expedition. The ensuing trip through the Deep South and the American heartland becomes both a journey into the emotional truth of the Alwin family and a breakthrough into a new kind of resilience and understanding, and love. Along the way, Eric will know anew not only his mother, Audrey, but his sisters, Alice and Poppy, and his own wife and son. As he discovers the surprising secret behind the scandal that defined his father's fate, he will also realize what he must do to shape a more authentic and coherent life for himself. Christopher Tilghman's Roads of the Heart is a brilliant achievement by an author who, grappling with the strains and discords of contemporary American culture, achieves a special understanding of how family members love and lose and find one another every day.
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