A Lifetime of Men by Ciahnan Darrell - 9781716707933 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. She wants answers, but to find them, she risks destroying her closest relationships. College student Christopher Fairchild, the son of a white billionaire, disappears, and is next seen being savagely tortured in a video that surfaces online. A Lifetime of Men by Ciahnan Darrell, 9781716707933, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Almost overnight, everything Tolan thought she knew about herself and her family has changed. Her mother told her he died years ago, but the book suggests their story had a different ending. Tolan is pretty sure that Michael is her father. They bond over their shared outcast status, and their friendship quickly becomes intimate, but the relationship antagonizes the self-appointed moral watchdogs in their small town, who start to convert their threats into action. She's more clear about the relationship between her mother and Michael, a man twelve years her senior. I am committed to using my craft to help me engage the world and those with whom I share it.

Her mother appears to be associated with Bo, a feisty photojournalist who flies to Cuba in pursuit of a story and becomes embedded with Castro's rebels, but Tolan can't quite work out their connection. About Ciahnan A writer and a scholar I hold Masters degrees from the University of Chicago and Stony Brook University, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University at Buffalo. She's hoping for answers, but instead, she finds more mysteries tucked away in her mother's past. But when she finds a manuscript on her mother's computer that promises to reveal the true story, Tolan only hesitates for a moment before curiosity compels her to read on. The novel weaves together the lives of three female protagonists, each of whom faces their own struggles and shows their own particular type of resilience. Tolan has always let her mother have one secret - how she got that scar on her face - playing along with her mother's game of inventing outlandish tales to explain the wound away. A Lifetime of Men is an exquisite book, one that jumped straight to the top of my favorites list.