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Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea
moves back into her family''s grand Reconstruction mansion in North
Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother
has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother
moves into "his" house as well, it''s war.
Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two
siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn
between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the
iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A
Perfectly Good Family is a stunning examination of
inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our
parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or
not.
About the Author
Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea
moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North
Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother
has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother
moves into "his" house as well, it's war.
Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two
siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn
between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the
iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A
Perfectly Good Family is a stunning examination of
inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our
parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or
not.
About the Book
< p> Following the death of her worthy liberal parents,
Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction
mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid
younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep
older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war. < /p>
< p> Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two
siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn
between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the
iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. <
i> A Perfectly Good Family< /i> is a stunning examination
of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our
parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or
not. < /p>
