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Random House
March 2013
On Sale: March 12, 2013
224 pages
ISBN: 0812993217
EAN: 9780812993219
Kindle: B0092EE380
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Fiction Family Life
For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Richard Russo,
Jonathan Dee’s novels are masterful works of literary
fiction. In this sharply observed tale of self-invention and
public scandal, Dee raises a trenchant question: what do we
really want when we ask for forgiveness?
Once a privileged and loving couple, the Armsteads have now
reached a breaking point. Ben, a partner in a prestigious
law firm, has become unpredictable at work and withdrawn at
home—a change that weighs heavily on his wife, Helen, and
their preteen daughter, Sara. Then, in one afternoon, Ben’s
recklessness takes an alarming turn, and everything the
Armsteads have built together unravels, swiftly and
spectacularly.
Thrust back into the working
world, Helen finds a job in public relations and relocates
with Sara from their home in upstate New York to an
apartment in Manhattan. There, Helen discovers she has a
rare gift, indispensable in the world of image control: She
can convince arrogant men to admit their mistakes, spinning
crises into second chances. Yet redemption is more easily
granted in her professional life than in her personal
one.
As she is confronted with the biggest
case of her career, the fallout from her marriage, and
Sara’s increasingly distant behavior, Helen must face the
limits of accountability and her own capacity for forgiveness.
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