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Miriam Vener Feels Trapped in the Comfortable white middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston during the 1980s. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her biracial daughter born in Mississippi in the sixties when Miriam was a civil rights activist. Hot tempered, sensitive, manipulative and deeply hurt at her mother's disappearance from her life, Ronnee has been raised by her father, a formerly brilliant college professor who forbade her to see her white mother. Half a Heart charts the emotionally fraught terrain of the mother and daughter's reunion and Ronnee's divided sense of self and loyalty. With which family, and which race, does she identify? How does all this affect her relationships with her newly discovered half-sister, her white boyfriend, and the father she is rebelling against? Half a Heart is a searingly honest novel of public and private ideals betrayed and hopes reignited by one of our foremost novelists.

Als Jacob in Verdacht gerät, den grausamen Tod seiner Klassenkameradin Martha verschuldet zu haben, beginnt für die Familie Reiser ein Alptraum, eine Zerreißprobe, die sie im Innersten verändert. Ein Psychothriller, der bis zum bitteren Ende ohne heroische oder melodramatische Effekte auskommt.

Jednoho dne je v jednom malém americkém městě nalezena brutálně zavražděná dívka. Čtenář ví už od začátku, kdo je vrahem. Těžištěm psychologického románu s kriminální zápletkou je složité předivo rodinných vztahů, proměna života rodičů i sestry mladistvého pachatele, kterou provází ztráta jejich identity a naprosté vykolejení z normálního slušného života. S jakou ctí a vnitřní silou, ale i pravdou o zločinu se jeden každý z nich vyrovná? Jak se naučí žít dál se zatíženým svědomím? Má láska k dětem své hranice?

The Reisers were a typical American family. Two loving parents. Two bright teenagers. A lovely home in a small New England town. But then one day the doorbell rang, bringing news of a shattering crime that would turn their son into a stranger and tear their lives in half. As the case unfolds, parent is pitted against parent, brother against sister, family against community. Before and After is a novel that dares us to ask how well we, as families, really know each other and ourselves...dares us to see that one event can change everything...dares us to confront the fine--and shattering--line between guilt and innocence, between love and rage, between before and after.