Sea of Tranquility

By the acclaimed author of The Coming Storm, the critically celebrated story of a splintering nuclear family. Paul Russell's delicately layered novels have won him wide critical acclaim and an ever-increasing group of devoted readers. Sea of Tranquillity traces a disintegrating nuclear family across two decades of American life--from the early '60s to the '80s--and is told in a quartet of voices: astronaut Allen Cloud, his wife, their gay son Jonathan, and his friend/lover. Ranging in time and emotion from the optimism of the first moon shot to the dark landscape of the age of Aids, Sea of Tranquillity is an extraordinary accomplishment.