CellsGavin McCreaLabel: Scribe PublicationsDescription: From the author of Mrs Engels and The Sisters Mao an intimate family memoir about filial love and its limits separation and loss.Gavin is spending the quarantine with his eighty-year-old mother whose mind is slowly slipping away. He has returned home to care for her and to write a novel. But all he can write about is her. In this frank and revealing memoir he unspools an intimate story of his upbringing and early adulthood: feeling out of place as a child homophobic bullying at school his brother’s mental illness and drug addiction his father’s sudden death his own devastating diagnosis his struggles and triumphs as a writer and above all his relationship with his mother. Her brightness shines a light over his childhood but her betrayal of his teenage self leads to years of resentment and disconnection. Now he must find a way to reconcile with her before it is too late.
