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Pegasus
March 2015
On Sale: March 15, 2015
Featuring: Malcolm Dowd; Noah
336 pages
ISBN: 1605986887
EAN: 9781605986883
Kindle: 1605986887
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A wise and witty novel about the challenges to identity that arise in both adolescence and middle ageβand the student and therapist who just may have the power to save each other. Malcolm Dowd is almost positive he recognizes the freshman who shows up for a session at his office in Baxter Collegeβs Center for Behavioral Healthβhe just canβt place her. When suddenly she stands, takes off her wig, and reveals herself as Noah, the young man Malcolm had been treating months earlier, it marks the start of a relationship that will change them both. After losing his wife at a young age, Malcolm dedicated himself to giving his two daughters the stable, predictable childhood he never had. But now nothing is predictableβnot his young adult daughters, not himself, and certainly not Noah. Whether heβs attending class or rehearsing for the campus musical, Noah finds heβs often challenging everyoneβs definition of gender. During the course of one semester, Noahβs and Malcolmβs lives become entwined in ways neither could ever have imagined. Told alternately from Malcolmβs and Noahβs perspectives The Listener explores the ways in which we conceal and reveal our identities. As truth after truth is exposed, characters are forced to reconsider themselves and reorder their lives, with few easy answers to be found for anyone. The Listener is, ultimately, about the power of human connection and the many shapes that love can take.
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