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01832aam a2200277 i 4500 001 C94ED598258E11E7BA27ECCDDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170420010037 008 150515s2016 nmu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2015016698 020 $a 1939650429 020 $a 9781939650429 035 $a (OCoLC)909198234 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d BDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d CDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d BUP $d SILO 100 1 $a Wicks, Brandon, $d 1979- . 245 10 $a American fallout / $c Brandon Wicks. 264 1 $a Santa Fe : $b SFWP, $c [2016] 300 $a 331 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "For Avery Cullins-- library archivist, one- time teenage runaway, and gay man from a small Southern town--"family" means a live-in boyfriend and a surly turtle. But when his father, a renowned nuclear physicist, commits suicide, Avery's decade-long estrangement with his mother, who now suffers from dementia, comes to an end. With his boyfriend's help, Avery takes custody of his mother and, in a rented U-Haul, the trio heads cross country, back to an apartment in Cleveland and an uncertain future. The journey soon becomes a pilgrimage into the past as Avery sifts through his mother's mementos and a story of love, family, and loss emerges as his parents make a home, lose a child, and test the boundaries of marital love in the 1970s. Meanwhile, Avery must confront his own struggle with a mother who doesn't recognize him and a lover who, despite his cries to the contrary, is growing older, closer, and more domestic"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Gay men $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Gay men $x Fiction. $x Fiction. 651 0 $a Cleveland (Ohio) $x Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20170420012904.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C94ED598258E11E7BA27ECCDDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search