Logline

A young businessman's life is interrupted when he learns that his prominent father has molested a boy, and now faces a secret treatment designed to protect both the father's reputation, and welfare of other children: castration.

Genre

Memoir

Target Audiences

Age: 35-54

Target Gender: Universal

Setting

Any small southern town, a private beach, and Key West, FL

Based on a True Story

Yes

Publishing Details

Status: Yes: with a Publisher

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Year Published: 1999

Starting Description

A discretely gay, smart young businessman (Walter)gets a call one evening where he learns that his father has molested a neighbor's 5 yr-old son.

Ending Description

The castrated father deteriorates with strokes and heart attacks until at last he dies, freeing the mother and son to walk peacefully upon the beach where so many things happened years before.

Group Specific

Information not completed

Hard Copy Available

No

ISBN

Information not completed

Mature Audience Themes

Incest, Sexual Abuse

Plot - Other Elements

Philosophical Questions, Meaningful Message

Plot - Premise

Tragedy

Main Character Details

Name: Walter

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Role: Protagonist

Key Traits: Masculine, Perseverance, Complex, Educated, Insecure

Additional Character Details

Name: Walter Senior

Age: 70

Gender: Male

Role: Antagonist

Key Traits: Religious, Skillful, Complex, Confident, Engaging, Gracious, Leader

Additional Character Details

Name: Sanna Jane

Age: 70

Gender: Female

Role: Emotional

Key Traits: Confident, Heroic, Perseverance, Religious, Underdog, Educated, Empathetic, Faithful, Gracious, Modest, Naive, Strong Moral Code

Additional Character Details

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