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Family Dancing

David Leavitt

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#1179 of 8,085 books · #621 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1985) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1984).

A first collection of short stories reveals the ways by which family life, rituals, and disappointments shape and haunt us all. In "Territory," a well-intentioned, liberal mother, presiding over her local Parents of Lesbians and Gays chapter, finds her acceptance of her son's sexuality shaken when he arrives home with a lover. In the title story, a family extended through divorce and remarriage dances together at the end of a summer party—in the recognition that they are still bound by the very forces that split them apart. Tender and funny, these stories reveal the intricacies and subtleties of the dances in which we all engage.

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Publisher
Denoël
ISBN-13
9780140108408
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family relationshipsSexuality and acceptanceDivorce and remarriage

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