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"It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless -- unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who's been selling drugs to…

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Editions

15 editions · 4 languages
  • Hardcover · English · 2021
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 592 pages · 9780374181178
  • Paperback · English · 2021
    HARPER COLLINS · 9780008308902
  • Audiobook · English · 2021
    Macmillan Audio · 9781250810564
  • Other · English · 2022
    Thorndike Press · 9798885784030
  • Other · English · 2022
    Picador · 9781250858702
  • Other · English · 2022
    HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780008308933
American literatureNew York Times bestsellerGenerationsFictionFamiliesFICTION / Family LifeFICTION / LiteraryChicago (ill.), fiction