A Stone Boat: A Novel

The debut novel, first published over twenty years ago, from the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression and Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity—a luminous and moving evocation of the love between a son and his mother, sexuality, the startling changes wrought by grief, loss, and self-discovery.

Harry, an internationally celebrated young concert pianist, decides it's time to travel to Paris to confront his glamorous and for...