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Singing Boy
Bestselling author Dennis McFarland's masterful novel about three people's struggles to reclaim their lives in the wake of unfathomable tragedy
In a moment of senseless violence, Malcolm Vaughn's life is ripped away from him, leaving his wife and child to make sense of the shattered existence that remains. Sarah, a lab scientist and Malcolm's widow, retreats into herself, refusing to return to work when even the most mundane activities require enormous effort. Malcolm's son, Harry, just eight years old, goes cold, detaching from the grief that is rippling around him. Meanwhile, Vietnam vet Deckard Jones, Malcolm's best friend, is forced to come to terms with yet another loss. Sarah, Harry, and Deckard must each find a way to go on while everything around them appears to be crumbling.
Stunning and elegant, Singing Boy is a richly drawn novel of mourning, remembrance, and recovery, and a nuanced look at three individuals' slow march toward healing.
In a moment of senseless violence, Malcolm Vaughn's life is ripped away from him, leaving his wife and child to make sense of the shattered existence that remains. Sarah, a lab scientist and Malcolm's widow, retreats into herself, refusing to return to work when even the most mundane activities require enormous effort. Malcolm's son, Harry, just eight years old, goes cold, detaching from the grief that is rippling around him. Meanwhile, Vietnam vet Deckard Jones, Malcolm's best friend, is forced to come to terms with yet another loss. Sarah, Harry, and Deckard must each find a way to go on while everything around them appears to be crumbling.
Stunning and elegant, Singing Boy is a richly drawn novel of mourning, remembrance, and recovery, and a nuanced look at three individuals' slow march toward healing.
Book Details
- Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
- Publish Date: Feb 22nd, 2022
- Pages: 316
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.71in - 1.02lb
- EAN: 9781504074179
- Categories: • Psychological• Literary
About the Author
McFarland, Dennis: - Dennis McFarland is a bestselling author of novels and stories. His short fiction has appeared in the American Scholar, the New Yorker, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories, and many other publications. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, where he has also taught creative writing. He lives in rural Vermont with his wife, writer and poet Michelle Blake.
Praise for this book
"Exquisite . . . The conflicts here, and their resolution, take place within the heart and mind." --The New York Times Book Review
"Affecting . . . [McFarland] creates a wonderfully observed portrait of a family fractured and fragmented by grief, their lives irrevocably divided into a before and after." --The New York Times
"Hypnotic . . . [a] beautiful gasp of a book." --The Washington Post Book World
"A subtly wrenching, wryly unsentimental story . . . Beautifully evoking the volatile rhythms of mourning and recovery, Singing Boy strikes a stirring emotional chord." --Entertainment Weekly
"Affecting . . . [McFarland] creates a wonderfully observed portrait of a family fractured and fragmented by grief, their lives irrevocably divided into a before and after." --The New York Times
"Hypnotic . . . [a] beautiful gasp of a book." --The Washington Post Book World
"A subtly wrenching, wryly unsentimental story . . . Beautifully evoking the volatile rhythms of mourning and recovery, Singing Boy strikes a stirring emotional chord." --Entertainment Weekly