Father ∫ Son

When David, a disillusioned Los Angeles psychiatrist, receives an unexpected letter from a young writer named Gabriel claiming to be his biological son, their lives begin to intertwine in ways neither could have foreseen. Gabriel, twenty-four and adrift between jobs, cities, and selves, has pieced together fragments of family history that lead to David—an absence at the center of his life. Their correspondence begins with defensiveness and irony but soon deepens into a fragile exchange of confession and curiosity.

Through letters, emails, and memories, Father ∫ Son unfolds across the mirrored landscapes of New York and Los Angeles—two cities that come to represent distance and inheritance, ambition and regret. As David revisits his failed marriage and his unexamined need for control, Gabriel struggles to reconcile the father he imagines with the man who has appeared, suddenly and uncertainly, in his life. Each chapter reveals a new voice, a new reckoning, until the two men begin to recognize themselves not as opposites, but as echoes—two incomplete versions of the same story.

Ultimately, the novel asks whether love can be chosen after all the natural chances have passed. In exploring the limits of forgiveness and the strange intimacy of resemblance, Father ∫ Son becomes a meditation on creation itself—how we make meaning, how we inherit loss, and how, sometimes, two broken lives can form a whole.