Beaming Sonny Home: A Novel

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But she does love her son, Sonny, who nevertheless plunges her into deep despair when he takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer. Sonny claims to have seen John Lennon's face in an apparition and gets his own mug on the television news. Beaming Sonny Home is a poignant tale of disappointment and a mother's love that stands as a testament to Pelletier's gift for storytelling.

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"Hilarious...Another wry comic turn from Cathie Pelletier." - The New Yorker
"A small marvel of a book... Mattie is the most touching, funny, and drily astute heroine to come along since the irresistible eccentrics of Eudora Welty." - Newsday
"It is Pelletier's gift to be able to coax the drama from stony ground without artifice or sentimentality." - Boston Globe

Author Bio

CATHIE PELLETIER is the award-winning author of nine novels, including The Funeral Makers (New York Times Book Review Notable Book), The Weight of Winter (winner of the New England Book Award) and Running the Bulls (winner of the Paterson Prize for Fiction). As K. C. McKinnon, she has written two novels, both of which became television films. She lives in Allagash, Maine, in the family homestead where she was born.