Breakfast with Scot - Softcover

Gay couple Sam and Ed face sudden parenthood when eleven-year-old Scot's mother suddenly dies and the couple is determined to make good on a wine-soaked promise made years before, but parenting will not be as easy as the two men expect. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A gay couple faces sudden parenthood and the embarrassing truth about their own definitions of "normal" in this novel. Sam and Ed are living the good life: happy, healthy, devoted to each other and their careers, they have no yearning for the joyful mysteries of parenthood. But when eleven-year-old Scot's mother suddenly dies, the couple is determined to make good on a wine-soaked promise made years before. They hang a tire swing in the back yard and call the neighborhood school to arrange enrollment. Scot arrives just in time to start fifth grade - with a pair of lacy white socks in his duffel bag. With wry dialogue, frothy characters, and an offbeat plot, Michael Downing's mastery reaches new heights of brilliance in Breakfast with Scot.