Audio Book Description:
Meet the Laments- the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen`s exuberant debut novel. Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto "Laments move!" His wife, Julia, is a fiery spirit who must balance herhusband`s oddly peripatetic nature with unexpected aspirations of her own. And Will is the "waif with a paper-thin heart" given to Howard and Julia inreturn for their own child, whois lost in a bizarre maternity-ward mishap. As Will makes his way from infancy to manhoodin a family that careens fromcontinent to continent, one wonders where the Laments will ever belong. Undeniably eccentric, the Laments are also universal. Every family moves on inlife. Children grow up, things are left behind- there is alwayssomething to lament. Throughthe Lament`s restlessness, their responses toadversity, and especially theirunwieldylove for one another, George Hagen givesus a portrait of every family that is funny, tragic, and improbably true.
