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Henry Holt & Company
July 2009
On Sale: June 23, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 0805089942
EAN: 9780805089943
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A once-charmed family is forced to confront the devastating
tragedy that struck it years ago in this fiercely tender
tale of betrayal and reconciliation It’s the fall of 2007, and Emily Ascher should be
celebrating: she just got engaged to the man she loves, her
job is moving in new and fulfilling directions, and her
once-rocky relationship with her mother, Laura, has finally
mellowed into an easy give-and-take. But with the promise
of new love settling into old comes a difficult look at how her family
has been torn apart in the many years since her brother
died. Her parents have long since divorced, and her father,
Joe, a famous actor and playwright who has been paralyzed
with grief since the tragedy, carries the blame for his
son’s death—but what really happened on that winter night?
Why has he been unable to clear his name, or even discuss
that evening with Laura and Emily? As spring looms—and with it Emily’s wedding in the
Berkshires and an unveiling of Joe’s new play—each Ascher
begins to reevaluate the events of long ago, finally facing
the truth of his or her own culpability in them. Moving
between past and present over the course of sixteen years,
The Embers is a skillfully structured debut novel of buried
secrets and deep regrets that crush a family while bonding
its members irrevocably.
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