Rebecca Wait Knihy

What kind of man kills his own family? A gripping, tender novel about fathers and sons

"For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is also their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with. There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of, but which has shaped everything . . . As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended. They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments."--Publisher

The arresting new novel from the author of The View on the Way Down

Fünf Jahre sind seit Kits Tod vergangen. Der jüngere Bruder Jamie lebt ein schattenhaftes Dasein, entfremdet von seiner Familie, gelähmt durch die Ereignisse der Vergangenheit und die unbeugsame Wut seines Vaters. Die Eltern sind in Schweigen versunken und froh, dass wenigstens Tochter Emma ein zufriedenes Leben zu führen scheint und offenbar gar nicht genau weiß, was damals geschehen ist. Doch als Emma älter wird, beginnt sie, unbequeme Fragen zu stellen, in der Hoffnung, das Geheimnis um Kits Tod endlich zu lüften. Als die Antworten ausbleiben, beschließt Emma, der Sache selbst auf den Grund zu gehen, und reißt von zu Hause aus, um ihren Bruder Jamie zur Rede zu stellen.