May We Be Forgiven : A Novel

✍ Scribed by A.M. Homes

• Book ID: 112047219
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 598 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101601143

✦ Synopsis

Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction --A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always "compelling, devastating, and furiously good" (Zadie Smith)
Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City. But Harry, a historian and Nixon scholar, also knows George has a murderous temper, and 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.
Harry finds himself suddenly playing parent to his brother's two adolescent children, tumbling down the rabbit hole of Internet sex, dealing with aging parents who move through time like travelers on a fantastic voyage. As Harry builds a twenty-first-century family created by choice...