The Last Romantics

Tara Conklin

Four siblings raise each other through a mother's withdrawal, and spend decades settling the debt.

Four siblings lose their father young and are left to raise themselves through their mother’s long withdrawal. Conklin follows them across decades, framed by the poet one of them becomes, asking what the children of an absent parent owe each other afterwards.

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