![]() ![]() ![]() Michael’s father, Noah’s nephew Victor, was a drug addict whose overdose broke the heart of his mother, Noah’s sister Fernande. ![]() Retired New York chemistry professor Noah Selvaggio, a widower planning to visit his birth city of Nice to celebrate his 80th birthday, reluctantly allows himself to be ambushed into becoming the temporary guardian of his 11-year-old great-nephew, Michael. Unlike Room, which was conceived after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case, Akin is a work of fiction, although the novel does touch on real historical events that similarly involve the abuse of children. Like Room, a novel about a five-year-old named Jack who is being held captive with his mother in a small room by her abuser, Akin is also a story about a child in a vulnerable situation, in this case an 11-year-old boy and his 79-going-on-80-year-old great-uncle, who are thrown together by misfortune. With an impressive string of awards and shortlistings behind her, including the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction for her historical novel Slammerkin (2000), Emma Donoghue is most widely known for her bestseller Room. The bestselling author of Room returns with a novel about a reluctant guardianship. Tags: Akin/ Emma Donoghue/ guardianship/ Nice ![]()
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