The Promise of Rest

By Reynolds Price

Subjects: Fathers and sons, Patients, Domestic fiction, English poetry, Fiction, general, LGBTQ HIV/AIDS, Families, Mayfield family (Fictitious characters), Family, AIDS (Disease), Fiction, Aids (disease), fiction, Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ poetry, North carolina, fiction

Description: Returning to his North Carolina family home to die from AIDS, Wade Mayfield induces feelings and patience in his attending, divorced parents that initiate a possible reunion and the perpetuation of a proud family tradition.