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Tommy's nickname is Lucky, but nobody would think this crippled boy was blessed. Cursed with health problems and drawn into trouble more often than not, Tommy is the recipient of pity rather than admiration. He's nothing beats his stepbrother Eric.
Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by way of a seemingly endless way to obtain good fortune-he is charming, a star athlete, and a magnet for anyone in his sphere. Yet in spite of these differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as two humans can be.
After tragedy rips their makeshift family apart, the lives of these boys split. In a powerful story of modern-day resilience and redemption, Tommy and Eric forge their separate ways on the globe, each confronting the challenges of his sphere. For Tommy this means dropping out of school, selling drugs, living on the streets, and somehow creating a family of his own. Motherless, African-American, and impoverished, Tommy has nothing but feels lucky every day of his life. For Eric, the golden youth, life means athletics, sexual attraction, excellent grades, prosperity, and the uncertainty that comes with prizes won too easily. Given everything, he trusts nothing.
Eric and Tommy's parallel lives are an astonishing story of self-determination and the real measure of fortune. The ties that bind this Adonis and his sickly counterpart, however, are thicker than blood, so when circumstances reunite Eric and Tommy after years apart, their distinct methods to life may be the thing that can save them from forces that threaten to destroy them once and for all.
Written with unique insight in to the hidden currents and deeper realities of modern life, Fortunate Son is a tour de force by the author the Boston Globe calls "one of this nation's finest writers."
