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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 (Paperback, Epub Edition)
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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 (Paperback, Epub Edition)
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THE BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE ORANGE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF WE
NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. 'Distinctly chilling' Independent
'Unsettling as it is entertaining' Financial Times 'It's scaring
the hell out of me' Tracy Chevalier In this eerily prophetic novel
from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About
Kevin, a once-wealthy family faces the prospect of ruin. This
apocalypse is financial - the dollar is in meltdown, America's
national debt far beyond repayment. It is 2029. The Mandibles have
been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their
97-year-old patriarch dies, but now their inheritance is turned to
ash. Each family member must contend with disappointment, but also
- as the effects of the downturn start to hit - the challenge of
sheer survival. Recently affluent Avery is petulant that she can't
buy olive oil, while her sister Florence is forced to absorb strays
into her increasingly cramped household. As their father Carter
fumes at having to care for his demented stepmother now that a
nursing home is too expensive, his sister Nollie, an expat author,
returns from abroad at 73 to a country that's unrecognizable.
Perhaps only Florence's oddball teenage son Willing, an economics
autodidact, can save this formerly august American family from the
streets...
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