The Family Heart: A Memoir Of When Our Son Came Out

I don't normally read non-fiction, but I have two memoirs in my book pile at the moment (this one & Cheryl Strayed's "Wild"). This one is there because I've read Dew's fiction and liked it. From reading her fiction she struck me as someone who would be very thoughtful and insightful about family

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relationships. I wondered if she might have something to say about her relationship with her gay son and what life was like for him that might tell me something about my daughter's life and my relationship with her. I guess the main message I got was that: (a) even basically sensible parents can say and do some pretty offensive things to their children, out of pure thoughtlessness, and (b) the parents who live their lives through their children are most likely to be unable to deal with children who have different sexuality from their own. An interesting read....not earth shattering, but worth finishing.

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