A literary account of the author's paratrooper mother's murder in September 2001 explores the crime against a backdrop of a shattering national tragedy, his struggles to become the man his mother want
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYIn the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unfl