MOTHERS AND SONS (PB)

Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional detached hook-ups. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter’s numbness, the catastrophic event that he has avoided facing for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann, his mother, who runs a women’s retreat she founded after leaving his father, cherishes the world she has built. But as Peter’s case plunges him further into the fraught memories, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart.