Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life;
his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous
temper.They have been uneasy rivals since childhood.Then one day
George loses control so extravagantly that he precipitates Harry
into an entirely new life. In May We Be Forgiven, Homes gives us a
darkly comic look at 21st century domestic life - at individual
lives spiraling out of control, bound together by family and
history.The cast of characters experience adultery, accidents,
divorce, and death. But this is also a savage and dizzyingly
inventive vision of contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes
penetrates like no other writer - the strange jargons of its
language, its passive aggressive institutions, its inhabitants'
desperate craving for intimacy and their pushing it away with
litigation, technology, paranoia. At the novel's heart are the
spaces in between, where the modern family comes together to
re-form itself. May We Be Forgiven explores contemporary orphans
losing and finding themselves anew; and it speaks above all to the
power of personal transformation - simultaneously terrifying and
inspiring.
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