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Riverhead
August 2013
On Sale: August 15, 2013
416 pages
ISBN: 1594631808
EAN: 9781594631801
Kindle: B00C5R7FV8
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Fiction
From the critically acclaimed author of
Absolution, a literary page-turner set in the
American heartland.
Poplar Farm has been in
Louise’s family for generations, inherited by her
sharecropping forbearer from a white landowner after a
lynching. Now the farm has been carved up, the trees torn
down—a mini-massacre replicating the history of many farms
before it, and the destruction of lives and societies taking
place all across America.
Architect of this
destruction is Paul Krovik, a property developer soon driven
insane by the failure of his ambition. Left behind is a
half-finished “luxury suburb” of neo-Victorian homes on the
outskirts of a sprawling midwestern city. To Paul it is a
collapsed dream, but to Julia and Nathaniel, arriving from
their small Boston apartment, it is a new start, promising a
bucolic future. With their son, Copley, they buy Paul’s
signature home in a foreclosure sale and move in to their
brave new world. Yet violence lies just beneath the surface
of this land, and simmers deep within Nathaniel. The
remaining trees bear witness, Louise lives on in her
beleaguered farmhouse, and as reality shifts, and the edges
of what is right and wrong blur and then vanish, Copley
becomes convinced that someone is living in the house with them.
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