“That book, I think, has helped an awful lot of people,” he said. Dew’s husband said the memoir, which was translated into multiple languages, drew worldwide responses from parents and their gay and lesbian children. “It is a touchingly written account of a family coming to terms not only with their son’s sexuality, but with their own unspoken prejudices, and the realities that peacefully lay some of their dreams to rest.” The book “is less about her son's revelation of his homosexuality than about the mighty weight of parents’ expectations,” Renee Graham wrote in a Globe review. “The Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out” recounts what happened when Steve told her he was gay. “And it has definitely inspired me and my brother in our work, and how we maneuver through the world.” “My mother had a wry view of the world and a very, very sharp one,” said her son Charles Stephen Dew of Williamstown, who goes by his middle name. In her novels, she “scrutinized the intricacies of family life with meticulous intelligence and plain-spoken lyricism,” Wendy Smith wrote in the Times, in 2005. “She had a passion for crafting sentences that were elegant and expressive.” Dew’s “command of language sometimes just floored me,” said her husband, Charles Burgess Dew, the Ephraim Williams professor of American history at Williams College.
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