Horizons
7 total works
Family dynamics are strained when Grandmother Gustel, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, moves in; though Charles, a high school senior, hopelessly tries to live a normal life, while his father refuses to recognize the problem.
A seventeen-year-old unmarried father wins the rights to custody of his son in court; goes off to college in New York City, where he finds an apartment with three girls as roommates; and improves his relationship with his own father, always knowing his baby is the most important thing in his life.
After his father walks out on his slightly crazy mother, sixteen-year-old Jason, the last child at home, finds it difficult to deal with his mother's increasing desperation.
At loose ends the summer their parents separate, fourteen-year-old twins open and operate a restaurant with the help of their friends.
While she is visiting her father and stepmother in California, 15-year-old Alison learns her mother is a lesbian.
