The moment 12-year-old Jeremy Rosenberg witnesses his father's death, he loses the world he had assumed would last forever. With a young brother expecting "Daddy" to yet come home, a sister blaming herself, and a mother falling toward isolation, Jeremy is sent fatherless into the world just as he reaches adolescence. Effectively set in mid1960's Chicago suburbia, THE WIDOW'S SON is launched on a devastating moment, but this tale of misguided efforts and accidental triumphs of children forced into difficult times creates a humorous, poignant novel. The reader's laughter and tears are sure to flow together to the last page as Jeremy struggles to make his family into a family once again.

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