Who knew hunting for your birth parents could be hazardous to your health? When Brenna Walker suffers a devastating emancipation her senior year of high school, she sets off on an undercover search for her missing relatives. Over a series of visits with her mother that raise even more questions, Brenna asks the name of her birth father, why her uncle adopted her, and why he kept her from the family. Did he not want her to know them, or did he not want them to know her? When the evidence doesn’t add up, and without a reliable guide, Brenna makes mistakes in judgment that cost her dearly. The newest volume in The Cousin Cycle, How Not to Cry in Public: A Novel explores the limitations of one person’s view of an event. Each cousin sees only a narrow slice of the total reality pie, which sparks the continuing question of who sees accurately? Or is every person necessarily limited?
Who knew hunting for your birth parents could be hazardous to your health? When Brenna Walker suffers a devastating emancipation her senior year of high school, she sets off on an undercover search for her missing relatives. Over a series of visits with her mother that raise even more questions, Brenna asks the name of her birth father, why her uncle adopted her, and why he kept her from the family. Did he not want her to know them, or did he not want them to know her? When the evidence doesn’t add up, and without a reliable guide, Brenna makes mistakes in judgment that cost her dearly. The newest volume in The Cousin Cycle, How Not to Cry in Public: A Novel explores the limitations of one person’s view of an event. Each cousin sees only a narrow slice of the total reality pie, which sparks the continuing question of who sees accurately? Or is every person necessarily limited?
