- Family secrets, Crime, Fiction, Life change events
Gavin Sasaki's a promising young journalist in New York City, until he's fired in disgrace following a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. It's early 2009, and the world has gone dark very quickly: the economic collapse has turned an era that magazine headlines once heralded as the second gilded age into something that more closely resembles the Great Depression. The last thing Gavin wants to do is return to his hometown of Sebastian, Florida, but he's drifting toward bankruptcy and is in no position to refuse when he's offered a job by his sister, Eilo, a real estate broker who deals.
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Grave, classical in form, contemporary and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Emily St. John Mandel
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 279
- Publisher
- Unbridled Books, Pan Macmillan, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781609530792
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