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Wed Nov 14, 2007

Books Inc. in the Castro presents

Dan Boyle reading and signing his new novel Housecleaning

A gay scientist’s attempt to unravel the secrets of the universe while caring for his dementia-suffering, time-warped mother


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Books, Inc. In the Castro
2275 Market St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
district: San Francisco

Wed Nov 14, 2007 (7:30 PM)

Description
In Housecleaning, Caltech physicist Tom Flaherty’s mother is suffering from dementia that causes her to journey back into earlier periods of her life, especially when she is cleaning the house and finding personal items that trigger her memory.

But Maude Flaherty’s travels – from the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925 to the 1936 Berlin Olympics to the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963 – might be the evidence Tom needs to develop a unified theory of space, time and place, and also to reconnect with a society that he’s lost touch with since the murder of his partner Ken 10 years ago in South Africa.

As Tom attempts to determine what is happening to Maude, the sense of wonder that disappeared after Ken’s murder returns, and his renewed quest for the meaning of life leads him into the national spotlight.