A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY by Lauren Grodstein

February 6th, 2010 admin

Book Quote: “This is something about himself that Alec still doesn’t know: how much he was wanted, how difficult it was to have him. And during some moments of adolescent rebellion, and again during the wars over his dropping out of Hampshire, when he would scream that he wished he’d never been born, Elaine would grab his flailing arms, hold him still, and say, You can never say that. That’s the one thing you are never allowed to say. He was born at Round Hill Medical Center on July 4, 1985, nine fifteen at night. As we held Alec for the first time, the…


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