Atticus Lish

Corey Goltz grows up in working-class Boston as the only child of Gloria, whose intellectual ambitions were derailed early. Corey, restless, dreams of a great adventure. Instead, when he is fifteen, Gloria is diagnosed with ALS and, too late, his estranged father, Leonard—a man of great charisma and deep resentments—reenters the picture. Determined to be his mother's hero at any...