Dale Loves Sophie to Death by Robb Forman Dew

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Dew imparts a lot of self gained wisdom in this perceptive and beautifully articulated story, in the end she realizes she has something she has always had a strong loving family and two good sons.’ The Dallas Morning News’AMEN FROM ANY MOTHER, EVERY MOTHER.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Dew and her husband as parents, and the most powerful moments of this inspiring memoir, occur when they come out’ to their community as parents of a gay child… Dew’s intense imagination, combined with her ignorance of homosexuality, was as much a hindrance as a help, and it is to her credit that she has recorded the occasionally wacky assumptions and painful readjustments of her own odyssey with such care and humor.’ The New Yorker’POETIC, HONEST.’ Fort Worth Star Telegram’Eloquent and absorbing… It is a chilling moment, and it is described with a writer’s eloquence and a mother’s rage… By writing The Family Heart, Robb Forman Dew has done such parents an extraordinary service.’ The Washington Post Book World’TOUCHINGLY WRITTEN.’ The Boston Globe’At the heart of this memoir lies a true epiphany: the author’s sudden, galvanizing awareness of the suicidal consequences of homophobia. The Family Heart is a tough and challenging work, for it reminds us that empathy is a humble but radical virtue, if lived.’ USA Today’ I’m gay.’ Every day, parents around the world hear those words from their children. Being Polite to Hitler is a moving, frank, and surprising portrait of post World War II America. Robb Forman Dew intricately weaves together personal and family life into a richly wrought tapestry of the country in the 1950s and beyond. Having expected her life to become smaller, Agnes is amazed to see it grow instead. She puts out fires, smoothes fraying nerves, and, stunned as anyone, receives a marriage proposal. She shepherds her daughter in law, Lavinia, who moves in with her own two daughters to escape her husband’s drinking. And despite her newfound freedom, Agnes finds herself becoming even more entangled in the family web.

As much as she’d like to, Agnes can no more deflect their adamant advice than she can step down as their matriarch.

But how, at 51, can she establish an identity apart from what has so long defined her? Often eloquent, sometimes blunt, and always full of fire, The Scofield clan is not a family that keeps its opinions to itself. After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield realizes that she is truly weary of the routine her life has become.

Dale Loves Sophie to Death by Robb Forman Dew