“In the living room, the consensus among the guests was that Scotty’s looks favored his father, but the Judge was quick to disagree: ‘He doesn’t look a thing like me. He looks like an hors d'oeuvre.’Hearing this, Joan thought the following, and pledged it to herself, as both prayer and promise: You will be loved, Scotty Ocean.And while the guests laughed at the Judge’s remark, Joan leaned over and softly whispered to her newborn son, 'You will be loved.”

American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, film director and film producer

Peter Hedges is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He is known for moving across several forms of storytelling, from fiction and stage work to film. His career spans writing and filmmaking, with credits in novels, plays, screenplays, directing, and producing. That range is what most clearly defines his public profile, even when the available record gives only the broad outline of his work.