Offspring
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jonathan Strong.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Zoland Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Parent and child -- Fiction.; Suburban life -- Fiction.; Boys -- Fiction.; Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Description: Linc and Izzy, sweethearts since junior high yet still unmarried, find themselves decades later with three sons, a dog, and a bungalow in a suburban backwater of Chicago. Now adolescence is about to strike their eldest, who has been directing his brothers in a mysterious project: the digging of a tunnel under their basement. Are they burrowing to deeper safety or seeking an escape? It seems a time to draw the children close for maybe the last time.

With grandparents, uncles and aunts, and a school psychologist watching for any sign of trouble, Linc and Izzy are on an ever-narrowing path. Will their love be enough to protect their boys from the larger world?