![]() To the staff of a Minneapolis nursing home, he’s the devoted partner of a much older man who’s recently suffered a debilitating stroke. Who is Brendan Wolf? It all depends on who you ask. His loyalties divided between his father and his aunt, between his internal reality and his public persona, Kevin is forced to reevaluate his notions of family and love as painful truths emerge about both. ![]() Complicating the family dynamic is the constant meddling of Kevin’s outspoken Aunt Nora who will never forgive Patrick for Eileen’s death along with Patrick’s inability to stay single for very long. More disturbingly, his mother’s death may well have been a suicide, not an accident. ![]() ![]() ![]() As lonely women vie for his father’s attention, Kevin discovers Patrick’s own closely guarded secret: he had planned to abandon his family for another woman. His mother Eileen died two years earlier when her car plunged into the icy waters of the Mississippi River, and since then Kevin’s relationship with his father Patrick has become increasingly distant. It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers, rock and roll, and unbeknownst to anyone else a boy in his class with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude. ![]()
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