And Gary’s wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, buying up all the lipstick in drugstores around New Orleans and bursting into crying fits.
Meanwhile Gary, Alex’s brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. (A power-hungry real estate developer, he is, by all accounts, a bad man.) She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tight-lipped mother, Barbra.Īs Barbra fends off Alex’s unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous life with Victor. 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.
From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer.
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