His Mother's Son

To those who meet Jana Thomas hers seems a perfect life with a beautiful home a successful career as an ER doctor a loving husband and a darling six-year-old son named Evan. But inside Jana is crumbling. Evan's seemingly normal all-boy tendencies are escalating her motherly worry into something close to hysteria threatening her job her marriage and even her relationship with her son. <br> The real source of Jana's disintegration is a past she has kept buried for sixteen years. When that past begins to bleed into the present Jana is forced to plunge into the emotional whirlpool she left behind-with results that are shattering profound and wrenchingly moving.<br> Reminiscent of Sue Miller and Jane Hamilton Cai Emmons's extraordinary first novel strikes a fine balance between keen psychological observation and page-turning momentum.<br>