The Misfortune of Marion Palm Contributor(s): Culliton, Emily (Author) |
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ISBN: 0525432620 ISBN-13: 9780525432623 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Women |
Dewey: 813.6 |
LCCN: 2017006599 |
Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Entertainment Weekly Best Debut Novels 2017 A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather a woman who embezzles. Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her children's private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator they had to have, and state-of-the-art exercise equipment, gathering dust. When the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from her basement and runs. Leaving her husband and two daughters to grapple with the consequences of her crime, and the mother-shaped hole in their house, Marion is on the lam, hiding in plain sight. Brilliantly skewering the mores of a status-obsessed society, and perfectly capturing the spirit of bourgeois Brooklyn Heights, this wildly entertaining debut novel features a "bad mom" you can't help but love.. |