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Only much later do we, and he, come to understand that the absent Soprano progenitor is more to blame for influencing his son’s behavioral shortcomings than Tony first imagines.

The novelist’s latest, “Our Missing Hearts,” imagines a near-future in which a son’s search for his mother unfolds against a country whose leaders have pledged to preserve culture by destroying it.

Saunders imagines a space in which the devastated father and son might still communicate with the multiple spirits of the cemetery’s dead similarly waiting to be reborn.

One imagines that similar business goes on just beyond the bounds of this series.

While that unease remains a familiar reality for queer people, Guiraudie’s film imagines a not-too-distant world where queerness is folded into the fabric of everyday life.