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The wasp eaterWilliam Lychack

The wasp eater

2004164 pages
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"The Wasp Eater charts the raw emotional undercurrents of a family in crisis. Set in an old New England mill town in 1979, this novel is the story of a ten-year-old boy's dream of reuniting his estranged parents, a tale of characters caught in the crossfire of their desires and fears." "After learning of her husband's infidelity, Daniel's mother throws the man and his things out of the house. But Robert Cussler is a stubborn and impulsive man, and he returns almost nightly to his son's window. Through the moonlit screen, father and son secretly plot ways to make the family whole again.…

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 2005
    Wasp Eater
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 192 pages · 9780618618903
  • Other · English · 2004
    Houghton Mifflin · 164 pages · 9780618302444
Fathers and sonsFictionBoysLoss (Psychology)AdulterySeparated peopleNew england, fictionFiction, sagas