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Akin : a novel

Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author

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\"Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an eleven-year-old great-nephew he's never met, who urgently needs someone to look after him. Out of a feeling of obligation, Noah agrees to take Michael along on his trip. Much has changed in this famously charming seaside mecca, still haunted by memories of the Nazi occupation. The unlikely duo, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, bicker about everything from steak frites to screen time. But Noah gradually comes to appreciate the boy's truculent wit, and Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past. Both come to grasp the risks people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Subject: Widowers Fiction. / Older people Fiction. / Boys Fiction. / Intergenerational relations Fiction. / Family secrets Fiction. / Mothers and sons Fiction. / World War, 1939-1945 History Fiction. / Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. / Nice (France) Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780316491990, 0316491993

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6054.O547 A75 2019	1	BOOK	GENERAL