My father`s keeper by Jonathan Silin

The story of a Gay Son and His Aging Parents

"A wise, insightful book." - Andrew Holleran, author of Grief:  A Novel.

My Father's Keeper is the story of Jonathan Siln, a gay man in midlife who learned to care for his elderly parents as a series of life-threatening illnesses forced them to make the difficult transition from being independent to relying on their son.  Their new needs and unrelenting demands brought parents and child into intimate daily contact and radically transformed what had been a distant and emotionally fraught relationship.  This is a book about beginnings and endings, loss and redemption, the ethics of intervention, and the pressing needs of two extremely vulnerable populations.