A Perfectly Good Family
by Lionel Shriver
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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.
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Fiction, Inheritance and succession in fiction, Brothers and sisters, Sibling rivalry in fiction, Sibling rivalry, North Carolina in fiction, Brothers and sisters in fiction, Inheritance and succession, Literature, Families, Fiction, family life, general, North carolina, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Fiction, sagas, Siblings, Siblings, fictionPlaces
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A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel (P.S.)
July 3, 2007, Harper Perennial
in English
0061239496 9780061239496
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A Perfectly Good Family
2007, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Electronic resource
in English
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A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel (P.S.)
July 3, 2007, Harper Perennial
Paperback
in English
0061239496 9780061239496
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