Linked stories exploring the dark heart of the American family: “Electrifying, daring . . . sure to appeal to fans of Karen Russell and Lorrie Moore ” (Booklist, starred review). A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year The Bowmans are declining Texas gentry, heirs to an airline fortune, surrounded by a patriarch’s stuffed trophies and lost dreams. They will each be haunted by the past as they strive to escape its force. The Fosters are diplomats’ kids who might as well be orphans. Jill and Maizie grow up privileged amid poverty, powerless to change the lives of those around them and uncertain whether they have the ability to change their own. The Guzmans have moved between Colombia and the United States, each generation seeking opportunity for the next, only to find that the American dream can be as crushing as it is elusive. From the tense territory of a sagging, grand porch in Texas to a gated community in Thailand to a lonely apartment in nondescript suburbia, these wry, dark stories unwind the lives of three families as they navigate the ever-shifting landscapes of the American middle class. “No one is safe, Parker reminds us, especially within the family circle—but one’s chosen family can also offer salvation. . . . The stories, like the mounted heads in the Bowmans’ trophy room, rivet the gaze, demand that readers recognize themselves in those glassy eyes—and then become disconcertingly alive.” —The New York Times Book Review

Good characters...and a solid debut!........ KirKus Review Fannie honestly believed she was doing the right thing by keeping a secret from her teenage daughter, Abby. However, many years later after Fannies death, circumstances bring Fannie back from the dead to disclose the long buried secret and to settle unresolved issues with her daughter. The secret leads to blackmail, intrigue and murder. Now Abby has a second chance with her mother. Fannie and Abby deal with the unfinished business between them with love, sarcasm and humor. When Fannie returns from the afterlife, she helps Abby save a young man, Rick, who is determined to commit suicide by plunging to his death from a bridge. Ricks fateful encounter with Abby turns out not to be a coincidence at all. Fannie helps Abby save him from an untimely death, since Fannie knows he will be the key to unlocking the secret. Rick and Abbys friendship leads Abby ever closer to the events from the past that created the secret in the first place and leads Rick on his own journey to rebuild his life. As events unfold, Abby anguishes that like her mother, she has kept a secret from her own children. Ultimately, Abby learns that family secrets have a way of revealing themselves and changing the lives of everyone involved. Reviews from Amazon: Could not put it down, I want more......Honore Perfect page turner.........Nicole Wow. This is a book you will not want to stop reading. The ending does not disappoint.........Joseph Not to be missed.....Pat The characters and their conflicts were very real and their interactions were alive on the page. Ralph

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Years ago, Rick Singleton blackmailed the very wealthy managing partner of a large New York law firm after stumbling across a black market adoption ring the man was running on the side. He got a million dollars out of Steve Goldrick before going to the district attorney to turn him in—and Goldrick fled the country before the authorities could arrest him. Knowing that Goldrick could never return to the US without being arrested, Rick thought he and his family were safe from any potential reprisal from the disgraced attorney. But now someone has invaded Rick’s home, badly injured his wife, Maizie, and taken his three-month-old daughter, Grace—and all signs point to Goldrick. Maizie’s long-deceased grandmother, Fannie, has come back from the other side to help her family before; now, Maizie’s mother, Abby, calls on her again. A force to be reckoned with, Fannie is able to move freely in the physical world, although no one can see her. When she answers her daughter’s call, she finds herself in Dubai, with no clue as to what her surprising new surroundings have to do with her great-granddaughter’s kidnapping. Will Fannie be able to help her family figure out who really kidnapped Grace and where she is being held? And even if she does, will it be possible to return Grace safely to her parents?

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