Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham traces three generations of the Stassos family across four turbulent decades in twentieth-century America. Constantine, an ambitious Greek-American contractor, marries the young Italian-American Mary, and together they raise three children whose lives unfold in unexpected directions. As betrayals and secret desires surface, Susan pursues conventional happiness, Billy confronts his sexuality, and Zoe descends into destructive passion. Spanning the 1930s to the 1990s, the novel examines how family members wound and heal one another, revealing that the deepest pain and the greatest love come from the same source: the unbreakable ties of flesh and blood.
