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Also by Paula Treick DeBoard:

The Mourning Hours, June 2016
Mass Market Paperback
The Drowning Girls, May 2016
Paperback
The Fragile World, November 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Mourning Hours, July 2013
Paperback / e-Book

The Fragile World
Paula Treick DeBoard

MIRA
November 2014
On Sale: October 28, 2014
Featuring: Daniel Kaufman
400 pages
ISBN: 0778316769
EAN: 9780778316763
Kindle: B00IWTYYAI
Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction

From the author of publishing sensation The Mourning Hours comes a powerful new novel that explores every parent's worst nightmare.

The Kaufmans have always considered themselves a normal, happy family. Curtis is a physics teacher at a local high school. His wife, Kathleen, restores furniture for upscale boutiques. Daniel is away at college on a prestigious music scholarship, and twelve-year-old Olivia is a happy-go- lucky kid whose biggest concern is passing her next math test.

And then comes the middle-of-the-night phone call that changes everything. Daniel has been killed in what the police are calling a "freak" road accident, and the remaining Kaufmans are left to flounder in their grief.

The anguish of Daniel's death is isolating, and it's not long before this once-perfect family finds itself falling apart. As time passes and the wound refuses to heal, Curtis becomes obsessed with the idea of revenge, a growing mania that leads him to pack up his life and his anxious teenage daughter and set out on a collision course to right a wrong.

An emotionally charged novel, The Fragile World is a journey through America's heartland and a family's brightest and darkest moments, exploring the devastating pain of losing a child and the beauty of finding healing in unexpected ways.

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