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The Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out

by Robb Forman Dew

Ballantine. 1995. 229p. ISBN 9780345394088. pap. $15.

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Novelist Dew writes with compassion and humor about her son Stephen's coming out as gay. Her memoir is not as much about her son as it is about a family's commitment to one another. (LJ 5/1/94)

Reviewed by Lisa N. Johnston , Mar 01, 2014

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