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Simon & Schuster
May 2015
On Sale: May 12, 2015
Featuring: Benjamin; Audrey
224 pages
ISBN: 1476745900
EAN: 9781476745909
Kindle: B00LD1OUD8
Hardcover / e-Book
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In this gripping, gorgeous literary drama, two suburban
families are hopelessly entangled during an explosive
Thanksgiving weekend that changes their lives forever. When Benjamin’s wife kicks him out of their house, he
returns to his childhood home in Connecticut to live with
his widowed father. Lost, lonely, and doubting everything he
felt he knew about marriage and love—even as his
eighty-year-old father begins to date again—Benjamin is
trying to put his life back together when he recognizes
someone down the street: his high school crush, the
untouchable Audrey Martin. Audrey has just moved to the
neighborhood with her high-powered lawyer husband and their
rebellious teenager, Emily. As it turns out, Audrey isn’t so
untouchable anymore, and she and Benjamin begin to discover,
in each other’s company, answers to many of their own
deepest longings. Meanwhile, as the neighborhood is wracked
by a mysterious series of robberies, Audrey seems to be
hiding a tragic secret, and her husband, Andrew, becomes
involved in a dangerous professional game he can never win.
And, by the way, who is paying attention to Emily? Powerful, provocative, and psychologically gripping,
Housebreaking explores the ways that two families—and four
lives—can all too easily veer off track, losing sight of
everyone, and everything, they once held dear. Like the best
from Tom Perotta and Rick Moody, who capture the darker
truths of modern suburban life, this literary triumph from
an immensely talented writer offers an insightful and funny,
yet terrifyingly authentic portrait of modern suburban life
that reveals, hauntingly, how little we know of one
another’s lives.
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