Adam Haslett's compelling novel focuses on the strained relationship between an asylum lawyer and his mother. It's a ...

Peter subsequently locks himself out of his apartment, twice ... when, instead, it's Haslett's appreciation of the all-too-human mess of life that makes his writing so arresting; his characters ...

Adam Haslett's compelling novel focuses on the ... a 40-year-old son who represents asylum seekers and lives alone in a studio apartment in Brooklyn where the air is redolent of depression and ...