This unnerving novel deftly portrays a dysfunctional family whose violence and insanity are barely repressed. Sixteen-year-old Jim Ward lives in New Forest, a quiet town two hours from London, where he attends school and helps his mother care for her...
When a paranoid young woman and a troubled gay psychiatrist cross paths in Seattle, their pasts come threatening to life, in a novel that explores the shifting boundaries of gender, the sexuality of photography, and the impact of AIDS....