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Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this "stylish" (New
York Times Book Review) page-turner of greed and obsession,
survival and self-invention that is a piercing character study of
one unforgettable female con artist. At the end of the 1990s, with
the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss
Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City,
selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored
900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking the finest
champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture
of a wealthy art collector. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a
shark with outstanding business acumen. To others, she's a
heartless capitalist whose only interest in art is how much she can
make. But a thousand miles from the Big Apple, in the small town of
Pierson, Illinois, Miss Farwell is someone else entirely-a quiet
single woman known as Becky who still lives in her family's
farmhouse, wears sensible shoes, and works tirelessly as the town's
treasurer and controller. No one understands the ins and outs of
Pierson's accounts better than Becky; she's the last one in the
office every night, crunching the numbers. Somehow, her neighbors
marvel, she always finds a way to get the struggling town just a
little more money. What Pierson doesn't see-and can never
discover-is that much of that money is shifted into a separate
account that she controls, "borrowed" funds used to finance her art
habit. Though she quietly repays Pierson when she can, the business
of art is cutthroat and unpredictable. But as Reba Farwell's deals
get bigger and bigger, Becky Farwell's debt to Pierson spirals out
of control. How long can the talented Miss Farwell continue to pull
off her double life?
At seventy-eight, Winnie Easton has finally found love again
with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy Chicago businessman who has moved to
the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, to begin his life
anew. But their decision to buy one of the town's biggest houses
ignites anger and skepticism--as children and grandchildren take
drastic actions to secure their own futures and endangered
inheritances. With so much riding on Jerry's wealth, a decline in
his physical health forces hard decisions on the family, renewing
old loyalties while creating surprising alliances.
A powerfully moving novel told from alternating perspectives,
Commuters is an intensely human story of lives profoundly changed
by the repercussions of one marriage, and by the complex
intertwining of love, money, and family.
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