There's nothing like a knock on the door at 3:00 a.m. to change your
life forever. Gus Moore discovers how true this is when his
ex-girlfriend blows in on an icy January night just long enough to dump
"his problem" on the couch. From indolent single slob to competent
single parent, Gus's metamorphosis over the next six years is
astonishing.
All is going swimmingly for Gus and his son, Sam, until
two women complicate their lives: Sarah, with whom Gus has an
unsatisfactory friends-with-benefits relationship, and Maureen, his
son's bipolar mother, who has decided she wants back into her child's
life. Maureen's illness is a subtextual presence that eventually steers
the course of the novel.
Sunflowers, which takes its name from the
Van Gogh studies of the same, will appeal to a wide spectrum of
contemporary fiction readers. Refreshingly, Gus does not have the
stereotypical Mr. Mom awkwardness of being a single parent (although he
does "outsource the Jesus stuff" to the mother across the street), and
there is no predictable "happy couple works it out" ending.
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