Surrender, Dorothy

By Meg Wolitzer

Subjects: Gay men, New york (n.y.), fiction, Conflict of generations, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Children, Young women, Loss (Psychology), Friendship, Long island (n.y.), fiction, Death, Friendship, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Traffic accidents, Fiction, general

Description: The impact of a woman's death on her friends. After Dorothy dies in a car accident while spending the summer with them, they invite her mother to join them and the reminiscing soothes everyone's grief.