**An addictive and wry debut about a modern-day American dynasty and its unexpected upheaval when the patriarch leaves what's left of his fortune to his youngest, adopted son --who doesn't want to be found--setting off a family search and the unearthing of some surprising secrets.** The Whitbys: a
Baby of the Family
β Scribed by Roosevelt, Maura
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 343 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1524743178
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β¦ Synopsis
An addictive and wry debut about a modern-day American dynasty and its unexpected upheaval when the patriarch leaves what's left of his fortune to his youngest, adopted son --who doesn't want to be found--setting off a family search and the unearthing of some surprising secrets.
The Whitbys: a dynasty akin to the Astors, once enormously wealthy real estate magnates who were considered "The Landlords of New York."
There was a time when the death of a Whitby would have made national news, but when the family patriarch Roger dies, he is alone. Word of his death travels from the longtime family lawyer to his clan of children, from four separate marriages, and the news isn't good. Roger has left everything to his twenty-one-year-old son Nick, a Whitby only in name, including the houses currently occupied by Shelley and Brooke--two of his daughters from different marriages. And Nick is nowhere to be found.
Brooke, the oldest of the children, who is...
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