Description

In Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham takes us on a journey through four generations of the Stassos family as he examines the dynamics of a family struggling to "come old" in the 20th-century. In 1950, Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant laborer, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American woman, and together they produce three children: Susan, an ambitious beauty, Billy, an excellent homosexual, and Zoe, a wild-child. Through the years, a web of tangled longings, love, inadequacies and unfulfilled dreams unfolds as Mary and Constantine's marriage fails and Susan, Billy, and Zoe leave to create groups of their very own. Zoe raises a young child with the aid of a transvestite, Billy makes a life with another man, and Susan raises a son conceived in secret, each extending this is of love and family.