Lost Language of Cranes, The

By David Leavitt

Subjects: American fiction, Gay men, Matrimonios, Fathers and sons, Homosexuality in literature, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Closeted gays, Fiction, general, Real estate development, Fathers and sons, fiction, Fiction, Married people, Gay men, fiction, Parent and adult child, Padre e hijo, Fiction, psychological, Married people, fiction, Coming out (Sexual orientation), New york (n.y.), fiction, Sexual orientation, Ficción, Young men, Homosexuales varones

Description: David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own crisis: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to this family is Philip's father's own struggle with his latent homosexuality, realized only in his Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's admission to his parents and his father's hidden life provoke changes that forever alter the landscape of their worlds