Happy baby : a novel /
Elliott, Stephen, 1971-
Happy baby : a novel / Stephen Elliott. - 191 pages ; 21 cm
Stephen Elliott's new novel, Happy Baby, explores how pain can define desire, how the future becomes the past, and how grace struggles with self-destruction. The story, told in reverse, begins with thirty-six-year-old Theo and his search for sexual and emotional freedom, and slowly unravels back to a childhood of abuse in the juvenile detention centers of Chicago. Without judgment, Elliott traces a life defined by yearning--for love, for pain, for certainty. His clear words and unflinching gaze reveal the difficulty of simple truths and the possibility of transcendence in the face of unforgivable crimes.
1555977766 9781555977764
2017930120
Teenage boys--Fiction.
Child welfare--Fiction.
Juvenile detention homes--Fiction.
Adult child sexual abuse victims--Fiction.
First loves--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Happy baby : a novel / Stephen Elliott. - 191 pages ; 21 cm
Stephen Elliott's new novel, Happy Baby, explores how pain can define desire, how the future becomes the past, and how grace struggles with self-destruction. The story, told in reverse, begins with thirty-six-year-old Theo and his search for sexual and emotional freedom, and slowly unravels back to a childhood of abuse in the juvenile detention centers of Chicago. Without judgment, Elliott traces a life defined by yearning--for love, for pain, for certainty. His clear words and unflinching gaze reveal the difficulty of simple truths and the possibility of transcendence in the face of unforgivable crimes.
1555977766 9781555977764
2017930120
Teenage boys--Fiction.
Child welfare--Fiction.
Juvenile detention homes--Fiction.
Adult child sexual abuse victims--Fiction.
First loves--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.