The Scientists: A Family Romance

by Marco Roth

Book, 2012

Publication

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2012), Edition: 1st Us Edition, 208 pages

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: Marco Roth's father (cisgender man) had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Intersecting Marginalized Identities: The Roth family is Jewish.

Publisher's Summary: The precocious only child of a doctor and a classical musician, Marco Roth was able to share his parents' New York. Theirs was a world that revolved around house concerts, a private library of literary classics, and discussions of the latest advances in medicine—and one that ended when Marco's father started to suffer the worst effects of the AIDS virus that had infected him in the early 1980s. What this family could not talk about for years came to dominate the lives of its surviving members, with surprising and often devastating effects...

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