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THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE AND LOSS - BART YATES KART...

When his difficult mother is diagnosed with ALS  a sharp-witted yet sensitive artist
reluctantly returns to his New Hampshire hometown – and all the ghosts he left behind.Fans of
Andrew Sean Greer  Bryan Washington  and Jonathan Tropper will adore this outrageously funny 
deeply touching  buoyant novel from the award-winning author of Leave Myself Behind. As it
turns out  you can go home again. But sometimes  you really  really don’t want to . . . Home 
for Noah York  is Oakland  New Hampshire  the sleepy little town where Noah’s mother  Virginia
had a psychotic breakdown and Noah got beaten to a pulp as a teenager. Then there were the good
times—and Noah’s not sure which ones are more painful to recall. Now thirty-seven and eking out
a living as an artist in Providence  Rhode Island  Noah looks much the same—and swears just as
colorfully—as he did in high school. Virginia has become a wildly successful poet who made him
the subject of her most famous poem  The Lost Soul ” a label Noah will never live down. And
J.D.  the one who got away—because Noah stupidly drove him away—is in a loving marriage with a
successful  attractive man whom Noah despises wholeheartedly. Is it any surprise Noah wishes he
could ignore his mother’s summons to come visit? But Virginia has shattering news to deliver 
and a request he can’t refuse. Soon  Noah will track down the sister and extended family he
never knew existed  try to keep his kleptomaniac cousin out of jail  feud with a belligerent
neighbor  confront J.D.’s jealous husband—and face J.D. himself  the ache from Noah’s past that
never fades. . . . All the while  contending with his brilliant  unpredictable mother.

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