Now that her father, Victor, is on his deathbed, Alex-a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister-feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. “If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Victor and Barbra aren’t the only ones safeguarding family secrets.From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer. His wife, Twyla, a charming Southern beauty and seemingly devoted wife and mother, flutters around dying Victor, Bible in hand. He’s out in California, ostensibly for work, though something seems to be amiss with his marriage, too. Gary, though, steadfastly refuses to engage. “Now, things could be different.” She’s determined to get answers, thinking the truth – of her father’s criminal enterprise, of her parents’ inexplicable and enduring marriage – will set her free. So why bother with any relationship at all?” But Alex takes the call anyway, and she makes the trip to her father’s deathbed in sweltering New Orleans. “Things would never be honest between them. “She had given up on her parents years ago,” Attenberg writes of Alex. While he mostly reserved the physical abuse for his wife, Barbra, his violence still distorts his children, daughter Alex and son Gary, now grown, seeping through the cracks in the barriers they’ve erected around their lives.Īlex is still grappling with the fallout of her recent divorce, missing her only daughter, who’s with her dad for the summer, when Barbra calls. Viktor was a violent man, profligate in his brutality, a criminal real-estate magnate with seemingly little love for anything but power.
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