![]() ![]() In sixty-three interlinked vignettes and striking accompanying photographs, the novella cuts multiple paths-which can be reconstructed in any order-through the lives of its richly imagined characters. But when the patriarch of one family dies unexpectedly, the survivors face a stark imperative: adapt or face extinction. The very first work of fiction by the best-selling, acclaimed author of City on Fire-his piercingly beautiful treasure box of a novella about two families in the suburbs, now in a newly designed full-color edition For years, the Hungates and the Harrisons have coexisted peacefully in the same Long Island neighborhood, enjoying the pleasures and weathering the pitfalls of their suburban habitat. A novel about love and betrayal and forgiveness, about art and truth and rock'n'roll, about how the people closest to us are sometimes the hardest to reach-about what it means to be human.Ī Field Guide to the North American Family Book Review: ![]() And when the infamous blackout of July 13th, 1977 plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever. Their entangled relationships-which stretch from post-Vietnam youth culture to the fiscal crisis, from small-town Georgia to greater L.A.-open up the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. The individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's largest fortunes Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown's punk scene an obsessive magazine reporter his idealistic neighbor and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park. A big-hearted, boundary-vaulting novel that heralds a remarkable new talent: set in 1970s New York, it is a story outsized in its generosity, warmth, and ambition, its deep feeling for its characters, and its exuberant imagination. ![]()
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