Glen is coerced into helping his senile mother by his gay nephew Tristan. On probation, Mom burns things on the stove and steals cars for fun. Together they get her into an adult home, where her old lover lives.<br><br>The old man reveals he fathered a child with Glen's mother who was given up for adoption, but he no longer remembers the baby's name. All he knows is it starts with the letter D. Of course, everyone a little older than Glen with a D in his name now looks like a possible stepbrother, even Mom's probation officer, Damon.<br><br>Glen and Damon take a shine to each other. Is there any way for the two to win with such a dysfunctional family?

Glen Saves the World

Eventually, after I had refused for the third time to tell Sarah where her jewelry box was, and she had called me an asshole, among other things, she flounced out of the house, slamming the door so hard it almost broke the little window at the top of it. I sat down on whatever was behind me by then—the couch, I think—and tried to remember how to breathe. And suddenly, Tristan was there, crying with me, and holding out the whiskey bottle for me to take a slug. “I hate her!” he shouted. “I fucking hate her so much!” And right then, so did I. I calmed down very quickly, but Tristan cried for a long time.


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