A Home at the End of the World
Author: Michael Cunningham
Desc: Michael Cunningham’s celebrated novel is the story of two boyhood friends: Jonathan lonely introspective and unsure of himself; and Bobby hip dark and inarticulate. In New York after college Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate Clare a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love scuttling the plans of Jonathan who is gay to father Clare's child. Then when Clare and Bobby have a baby the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and with an odd friend Alice create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged fragile relationships of urban life today.