NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, a novel that exploreswith sharp humor and a fierce tendernessthe resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.
A mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but its also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America.... Nathan Hill is a maestro. John Irving
Its 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Andersoncollege professor, stalled writerhas a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasnt seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now shes re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows,...