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His Mother's Son
Praise for His Mother's Son
"Gripping. Brings home the power and terror of maternal love."
–O Magazine
"Emmons . . . has an eye for the grating intimacy of small-town
life and a fine ear for suggestive metaphors. . . . Unusual and
memorable." –The Economist
"Lovely writing . . . Emmons' emphasis is on her characters,
and she draws them well." –Seattle Times
"An unsettling and powerful debut novel." –Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
"The slowly building tension is by turns sickening and exquisite."
–Portland Oregonian
"Emmons has created what is an amalgam of a powerful domestic
novel and a psychological thriller." –Statesman Journal (Salem, OR)
"A riveting, zip-line ride over the narrowing chasm between
[Jana's] past and present lives. . . . Emmons sustains an amazing
level of emotional tension...." –The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
"A gift of a book, an affecting story of violence and forgiveness."
–Bookpage
"Accomplished playwright and filmmaker Emmons tests chilly
waters in this ambitious, unsettling debut." –Publishers
Weekly
"Gorgeous writing throughout makes for an unusually affecting
and memorable debut." –Kirkus Reviews
"Fans of Sue Miller will enjoy this first novel by playwright
and film industry worker Emmons." –Library Journal
"Suspenseful, edgy and exact, His Mother's Son explores the
dark country between what we know and how we are nonetheless compelled
to behave. Beautifully written, compulsively readable." –Janet
Fitch, author of White Oleander
"Cai Emmons puts a human face on our most urgent concerns.
Written with such terrifying precision that the prose burns on the
page, but also brilliantly nuanced, this is writing worthy of the
psychologically complex characters and their crucial drama of compassion
and violence, trauma and tenderness." –Laura Kasischke, author
of The Life Before Her Eyes
"Emmons takes us to the very heart of an American tragedy,
the kind of story we usually only know at the arms-reach remove
of TV news, and illuminates it with such vivid insight, such emotional
intensity, such imaginative sympathy that we can't stop turning
the pages." –Peter Ho Davies, author of The Ugliest House
in the World
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