JANE HAMILTON - DISOBEDIENCE

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When seventeen-year-old Henry Shaw inadvertently logs onto his mother's e-mail account, he discovers a secret that turns his previously stable sense of his family--and of himself-

-inside out. Mrs. Shaw is having an affair with Richard Polloco, a Ukrainian violin maker whose poetic messages and romantic lifestyle seem to offer an intensity lacking in her even-keeled husband. With mounting resentment, Henry tracks his mother's affair through her e-mail, and observes her with new eyes as she struggles with her daughter's obsessive interest in Civil War reenactments and her husband's maddening hands-off approach to parenting. Henry's perception of his mother is further complicated by his own first romance and his growing need to understand his parents while at the same time distancing himself from them. As the novel moves toward a violent confrontation that will change each of the Shaws, Hamilton explores the problems of obedience--to family, to one's passions, to history, to who we are at the deepest levels of identity--and reveals the hidden tensions that roil just beneath the surface of family life.

Part coming-of-age story, part meditation on the conflicting demands of romantic intensity and familial security, Disobedience creates an indelible portrait of one family teetering at the brink of disintegration, yet clinging to the mysterious bonds that hold them together