←Recommendations of Favorite Son

  • Doug DeVita: Favorite Son by Philip Middleton Williams
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    There's an entire lifetime of sibling rivalry and, yes, love, distilled into these 8 pages of emotional truth. Having been through the loss of both parents myself, Williams beautifully captures the tension, the fear, the sense of loss already creeping in, and the need to put aside difficult memories of the past in order to deal effectively with the difficulties of the present.

    There's an entire lifetime of sibling rivalry and, yes, love, distilled into these 8 pages of emotional truth. Having been through the loss of both parents myself, Williams beautifully captures the tension, the fear, the sense of loss already creeping in, and the need to put aside difficult memories of the past in order to deal effectively with the difficulties of the present.

    ”
  • Scott Sickles: Favorite Son by Philip Middleton Williams
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    Children in their mid-sixties...

    Anyone who, as an adult, has had to deal with parental infirmity and impending death, will feel this story in their bones, and anyone who hasn't will know know what to expect.

    FAVORITE SON gives us two brothers with a complicated history. They're what I call "close at a distance." They get along but small details trigger a reexamination of their relationship and their lives. There are resonant familial and brotherly truths in FAVORITE SON as well as a sense that nomatter how much has happened, there's more to come.

    Children in their mid-sixties...

    Anyone who, as an adult, has had to deal with parental infirmity and impending death, will feel this story in their bones, and anyone who hasn't will know know what to expect.

    FAVORITE SON gives us two brothers with a complicated history. They're what I call "close at a distance." They get along but small details trigger a reexamination of their relationship and their lives. There are resonant familial and brotherly truths in FAVORITE SON as well as a sense that nomatter how much has happened, there's more to come.

    ”