Beaming Sonny Home - Couverture souple

Fortune hasn t been kind to 66-year-old Mattie Gifford. Her mother committed suicide, her husband slept with her best friend, and she can t stand her three selfish daughters. But she does love her son, Sonny, who nevertheless plunges her into deep despair when he takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife s trailer. Sonny claims to have seen John Lennon s face in an apparition and gets his own mug on the television news. Beaming Sonny Home is a poignant tale of disappointment and a mother s love that stands as a testament to Pelletier s gift for storytelling.

CATHIE PELLETIER is the award-winning author of nine novels, including The Funeral Makers (New York Times Book Review Notable Book), The Weight of Winter (winner of the New England Book Award) and Running the Bulls (winner of the Paterson Prize for Fiction). As K. C. McKinnon, she has written two novels, both of which became television films. She lives in Allagash, Maine, in the family homestead where she was born.