May we be forgiven

Emma — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘Reads like a brilliant miniseries … has the narrative intensity of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections and the emotional punch of Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved.’ Observer Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his taller, smarter, and more successful younger brother George acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in New York City. But Harry also knows his brother has a murderous temper. When George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in which they both must seek absolution. Suddenly Harry finds himself playing parent to his brother’s two adolescent children, tumbling down a rabbit hole of online sex, and dealing with aging parents who move through life like travellers on a fantastic voyage. And he is forced to confront the ways in which our histories can either compel us to repeat our mistakes – or become the catalyst for change. May We Be Forgiven is a darkly funny tale exploring how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together. ‘An unflinching account of a catastrophic, violent, black-comic, transformative year in the history of one broken American family. Flat-out amazing’ Salman Rushdie

The unfolding

Emma — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family and must take responsibility for his past actions. For his wife and daughter are having their own awakenings: self-denying Charlotte enters rehab, and eighteen year old Megan, who has voted for the first time, explores a political future that deviates from her father’s ideology, while delving into deeply buried family secrets.Dark, funny and prescient, The Unfolding explores the implosion of the dream and how we arrived in today’s divided world.

M., Homes, A. – The Bell Bookshop

May we be forgiven

The unfolding