Honors include the Minnesota Book Award, the American Library Association’s Alex Award, and the Bloomsday Award for Irish American Literature. His novels have been a 2002 New York Times New and Notable title, an Oprah Daily pick for best LGBTQIA+ books of 2021, a 2021 Women’s National Book Association Great Group Reads selection, and a 2009 Book Sense Pick. Martin’s Press), After Francesco (Kensington), and the young adult novel Twelve Long Months (Scholastic).
“ I hope the novel will remind readers of our common humanity.”īrian Malloy is the author of novels The Year of Ice (St. One night in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Wilderness, drunken locals threaten a family of campers in an incident that reveals the fault lines between “deplorables” and “elites”.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.In the Boundary Waters (Novel), Minneapolis, MN His loyalties divided between his father and his aunt, between his internal reality and his public persona, Kevin is forced to accept his gay identity and reevaluate his notions of family and love as painful truths emerge about both. More disturbingly, his mother's death may well have been a suicide, not an accident.Ĭomplicating the family dynamic is the constant meddling of Kevin's outspoken Aunt Nora-who will never forgive Patrick for Eileen's death-along with Patrick's inability to stay single for very long. As lonely women vie for his father's attention, Kevin discovers Patrick's own closely guarded secret: he had planned to abandon his family for another woman. His mother Eileen died two years earlier when her car plunged into the icy waters of the Mississippi River, and since then Kevin's relationship with his father Patrick has become increasingly distant. It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers, rock and roll, and-unbeknownst to anyone else-a boy in his class with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude.
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