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Random House
January 2014
On Sale: January 14, 2014
400 pages
ISBN: 0812993306
EAN: 9780812993301
Kindle: B00DXKJ3H0
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Fiction | Contemporary
A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of
Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect
tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the
murky, difficult realities of the adult world with
far-reaching consequences.
Byron Hemmings wakes
to a morning that looks like any other: his school uniform
draped over his wooden desk chair, his sister arguing over
the breakfast cereal, the click of his mother’s heels as she
crosses the kitchen. But when the three of them leave home,
driving into a dense summer fog, the morning takes an
unmistakable turn. In one terrible moment, something
happens, something completely unexpected and at odds with
life as Byron understands it. While his mother seems not to
have noticed, eleven-year-old Byron understands that from
now on nothing can be the same.
What happened
and who is to blame? Over the days and weeks that follow,
Byron’s perfect world is shattered. Unable to trust his
parents, he confides in his best friend, James, and together
they concoct a plan. . . .
As she did in her
debut, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel
Joyce has imagined bewitching characters who find their
ordinary lives unexpectedly thrown into chaos, who learn
that there are times when children must become parents to
their parents, and who discover that in confronting the hard
truths about their pasts, they will forge unexpected
relationships that have profound and surprising impacts.
Brimming with love, forgiveness, and redemption, Perfect
will cement Rachel Joyce’s reputation as one of
fiction’s brightest talents.
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