Take a Look at Me Now

Take a Look at Me Now by Robert Crane begins at a point of disruption. The story traces how a family moves through a time when certainty fades and adjustment becomes necessary.

Bubby Welter is fifteen when his world begins to unravel. His mother, Carrie, suffers a mental breakdown that reshapes their family life, leaving both of them isolated in ways they don’t know how to bridge. As Carrie retreats into her illness, the structure of their home begins to collapse.

Left to navigate the fallout, Bubby faces his own failures—an embarrassing attempt at robbery, the near loss of a close friendship, and the painful realization that trust can be misplaced. Anger and confusion follow him, sharpening his sense that something essential has always been missing.

Driven by questions he can no longer ignore, Bubby begins searching for the father he has never known. What starts as a search for answers becomes a confrontation with absence, identity, and unresolved loss. Take a Look at Me Now is a coming-of-age novel about emotional standstill, fractured families, and the fragile bond between a mother and son caught in parallel pain.

Robert Crane is an American writer who writes literary fiction: short stories, novels, plays and poetry. Boone is his previous novel.

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