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When the police come to arrest Hal Lamm, a Minneapolis salesman, for abusing his thirteen-year-old granddaughter, his entire family must come to terms with their secrets and unhealed wounds. Hal's wife, Phyllis, after decades of denial and emotional estrangement, finally confronts him. His daughter Ellie, herself once abused by Hal, had sought to find strength by moving away, and now discovers it back in the midst of her family. Cal, the youngest son, is a lawyer whose instinct is to defend Hal - until he becomes a father himself. Most poignantly of all, the granddaughter Becky, unconsoled by…
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2 editions- Other · English · 1999Penguin Publishing Group · 9780140277227
- Other · English · 1997Nan A. Talese/Doubleday · 274 pages · 9780385486613
FictionChild abuseGrandfathers






