![]() ![]() ![]() Conner’s wife, Laine, a vivacious blonde vegetarian, is also long suffering as her husband has an affair, then develops a life threatening illness. Just ask his wife Mona, a reporter at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, who can’t cut away Jack’s long-buried feelings about his parents. Jack is a man not in touch with his feelings. While we follow their lives through the years – Conner learning how to drive, Jack moving up the cooperate ladder in his late father’s law firm, Conner agonizing over whether to have sex with his high school girlfriend or Jack bedding yet another paralegal from his office – it’s clear the brothers love one another, but don’t know how to express it. Older brother Jack, 25, returns to Cleveland to take care of 15-year-old Conner. Jack and Connor Reed are left only with each other after their parents die premature, through unrelated, deaths. In alternating and distinct voices, first time novelist Shari Goldhagen shows us the emotionally charged relationship between two brothers over a 25 year period. ![]()
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