The Language of Love and Loss

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<b>Readers of<i>Mad Honey</i> will adore this clever, deeply touching, buoyant new novel from an award-winning author. When his difficult mother is diagnosed with ALS, a sharp-witted yet sensitive artist reluctantly returns to his New Hampshire hometown and all the ghosts he left behind.</b><br> <br> As it turns out, you can go home again. But sometimes, you really,<i>really</i>dont want to . . .<br><br> Home, for Noah York, is Oakland, New Hampshire, the sleepy little town where Noahs mother, Virginia, had a psychotic breakdown and Noah got beaten to a pulp as a teenager. Then there were the good timesand Noahs not sure which ones are more painful to recall.<br> <br> Now thirty-seven and eking out a living as an artist in Providence, Rhode Island, Noah looks much the sameand swears just as colorfullyas he did in high school. Virginia has become a wildly successful poet who made him the subject of her most famous poem, The Lost Soul, a label Noah will never live down. And J.D., the one who got awaybecause Noah stupidly drove him awayis in a loving marriage with a successful, attractive man whom Noah despises wholeheartedly.<br> <br> Is it any surprise that Noah wishes he could ignore his mothers summons to come visit?<br> <br> But Virginia has shattering news to deliver, and a request he cant refuse. Soon, Noah will track down the sister and extended family he never knew existed, try to keep his kleptomaniac cousin out of jail, feud with a belligerent neighbor, confront J.D.s jealous husbandand face J.D. himself, the ache from Noahs past that never fades. . . . All the while, contending with his brilliant, unpredictable mother.<br> <br> Bittersweet, hilarious, and moving, and as unapologetically candid and unforgettable as Noah himself,<i>The Language of Love and Loss</i> is a story about growing older, getting lostand finding your way back to the only truths that really matter.

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