By Blood

Resumen del libro

A literary inquiry into identity and legacy, a gripping mystery remarkable. Carolyn Kellog, Los Angeles Times
San Francisco, the 1970s. A disgraced professor takes an office in an old downtown building to plot his return. But he is distracted by the sound next door of his neighbor, a psychiatrist, and in particular by of one of his patients, a young lesbian in search of her adoptive family. The professor, obsessed and enraptured, takes up the patient's quest as his own, and discovers the disturbing truth about her origins. As he sends each new revelation to the patient disguised as correspondence from an adoption agency she is energized by the information, but finds herself unmoored from everything she thought she knew about herself. With ferocious intelligence and enthralling, magnetic prose, Ellen Ullman weaves a dark and brilliant novel about connection, identity, history, and the terrible desire to influence another life.