mothers and sons

Doriel Waldman, a European Jew living in New York City, seeks out a psychoanalyst to help him deal with the ghosts of his past and the secrets of his parents, resistance fighters and survivors of World War II who died in an accident after the war.

When twelve-year-old Tony, a talented artist, begins sketching the dancers at the Kitty Kat Club where his mother is an exotic dancer, it sparks the attention of social services.

A teenage boy recounts, in a free verse journal, his attempts to come to terms with the realities of his mother's near-death coma.

In the 1970s, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Wittaker design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War that changes the course of their lives forever, forcing them to change their identities and leave the past behind, never to see one another again.

After receiving a treasure map drawn by his late father, midshipman Chuck Dugan goes AWOL to find the treasure and prevent his mother from marrying a devious man.

Thirteen-year-old Cyril MacIntyre is forced to attend law classes with his mother; and when she is kidnapped, he uses what he learned to find her.

A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.

While his mother grieves the death of her fourth husband, Tony vents his feelings to the Confess-O-Rama, never suspecting who's on the other end of the line.

Eighteen-year-old Chris struggles to deal with two shocks that have changed his life, his meeting the mother who left him and his father when he was ten and his discovery that he has gotten his girlfriend pregnant.

Max is planning to surprise his mother with breakfast in bed on Mother's Day, but he does not know how to start the stove.